I Was Only 19 chords by Julia Stone

Chords with lyrics

! CAPO 1 !

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Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal
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It was long march from cadets
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The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card
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We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left


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And Townsville lined the footpath as we marched down to the quay
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This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean
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And there's me in my slouch hat with my SLR and greens
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God help me, I was only nineteen

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From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat
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I'd been in and out of choppers now for months
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And we made our tents a home, V.B. and pinups on the lockers
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And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub


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And can you tell me doctor why I still can't get to sleep?
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And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking M.16?
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And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
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God help me, I was only nineteen


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A augmentedA four week operation, when each step can mean your last one
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On two legs: it was a war within yourself
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But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off
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So you closed your eyes and you thought about something else

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And then someone yelled out Contact, and the bloke behind me swore
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We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar
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Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
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God help me, he was going home in June


Interlude:
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1 can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel
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On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau
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And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
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'Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row


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And the Anzac 🏷Legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears
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And stories that my father told me never seemed quite real
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I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel
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God help me, I was only nineteen

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And can you tell me doctor why I still can't get to sleep?
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And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet?
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And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
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God help me, I was only nineteen
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God help me, I was only nineteen