Chords for VIETNAM WAR - I WAS ONLY 19 - John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew

Every night we do it, we do it thus, for the 50,000 Australians who served in Vietnam,
for the 500 who didn't come home, for the mums and dads and brothers and sisters and
wives who picked up the pieces when they did.
We also do it for all those Australians who are wearing our uniform overseas tonight.
And I think if we've learned one thing from the Vietnam War, we've learned that if we
want to, we can oppose Australia's participation in a war, but we must always respect and support
the soldiers we send to fight that war. _ _
_ Thank you very much Woodford, it's been sensational.
We hope you have a great evening, a happy, safe and prosperous new year.
[C] Thank you.
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[C] _ _ _ _ Mum and dad [Eb] and Denny [Bb] saw the passing out [F] parade.
[C] Puckapunyal [Bb] was a long march from [C] cadets.
_ _ _ Sixth battalion [Eb] was the next to tour.
[Bb] It was me who drew [F] the card.
[C] He did Conundra, [Bb] Joel Water before we [C] left. _
_ _ [G] Townsville lined the footpaths as [Fm] we marched down to [C] the quay.
[G] This clipping from the paper [F] shows us young and strong [C] and clean. _
[Am] There's me [G] in me slouch hat, with me [F]
[C] SLR and greens.
[G] God help me, _ _ _ _ I was [G] only [F] 19.
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[C] From Powell [Eb] Riding Shorts [Bb] to the dust of Kiwi [F] Dac.
[C] I've been in and [Bb] out of troubles [C] now for months.
_ _ We made our [Eb] tents at home, leave the [Bb] engine ops [F] on the locker.
[C] And an Asian [Bb] orange sunset [C] in the scrub.
_ _ _ [G] Can you tell me doctor, [F] why I still can't [C] get to sleep?
[G] Night time, it's just a jungle dark [F] and a barking F [C]-16.
[G] [Am] Watch this rash [G] that comes and goes.
[F] Can you tell me what [C] it means?
[G] God help me, _ _ _ I was only [F]
19. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] Four week [Eb] operation, [Bb] each step couldn't [F] mean your last one.
[C] On two legs, [Bb] with a war within [C] yourself. _ _ _
Put [Eb] your mates down to [Bb] lay, had you [F] dusted off.
[C] So you close your [Bb] eyes and you thought about [C] something else.
_ [G] Then someone yelled out, contact front!
[F] And the bloke behind [C] me swore.
[G] We hooked in there for hours, then it got [F] all muddy [C] raw.
[G] [Am] Frankie kicked [G] the mine, the day [F] that mankind kicked [C] the moon.
[G] God help me, _ _ _ he was going [F] home in June. _ _ _ _ _
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And I can still [Eb] see Frankie, [Bb] drinking tinnies in the Grand [F] Hotel.
[C] On a [Bb] 36 hour wrecked leave in [C] Buntow.
_ _ And I can [Eb] still hear Frankie, [Bb] lying screaming in the jungle.
[F] [C] The morphine [Bb] came and killed the [C] bloody row.
_ [G] The Anzac legends didn't [F] mention mud and [C] blood and tears.
[G] And the stories that my father told [F] me never seemed [C] quite real.
[E] [Am] And I caught some [G] faeces in my back [F] that I didn't even [C] feel.
[G] God help me, _ _ _ _ I was only [F] 19.
_ _ [G] Can you tell me, Doctor, why I [F] still [C] can't get to sleep?
[G] Why the Channel 7 [F] chopper chills me [C] to my [Am] feet.
Watch this [G] rash that comes and goes, [F] can you tell me what [C] it means?
[G] God help me, _ _ _ we're [G] only [F] 19. _
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