I Was Only 19 (Live) Chords

[Bm] Thank you.
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_ _ _ Mum [D] and Dad and Denny [A] saw the passing out [E] parade [Bm] at Pakapanyo.
[A] It was a long march [Bm] from Cadets.
_ _ _ The 6th [D] Battalion was next to [A] tour, it was me who drew [Em] the card.
[B] We did Canungra, [A] Shoalwater [Bm] before we left.
_ [F#] And Townsville lined the footpaths [E] as we marched down [B] to the quay.
[F#] This clipping from the paper [E] shows the young and [B] strong and clean.
[E] And there's me [B] with my slouch hat, [E] my [B] SLR and [F#] greens.
God help me, _ _ _ I was [E] only 19.
_ [Bm] From [D] Buntower, Eydon, Chinooks [A] to the dust at [Em] Nui Dad.
[Bm] I'd been in and [F#m] out of [A] choppers [Bm] now for months.
_ We made our [D] tents a home, [A] BB and pinups [Em] on the lockers.
[Bm] And an Asian [A] orange sunset [Bm] through the scrub.
_ [F#] And can you tell me Doctor, [E] why I can't [B] get to sleep?
[F#] And night time's just a jungle dark [E] and a barking [B] M16.
[E] And what's this [B] rash that comes and goes?
Can you tell me what it means?
[F#] God help me, _ _ _ I was only [E]
19.
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] A four week [D] operation, [A] any step could [Em] be your last one [Bm] on two legs.
[A] It was a war [Bm] within yourself, _ _ but you wouldn't [D] let your mates down.
[A] Till they had you [Em] dusted off.
[Bm] So [F#m] you closed your [A] eyes and you thought about [Bm] something else.
_ [F#] Then someone yelled out, Contact!
[Em] And that bloke [B] behind me swore.
We [F#] hooked in there for hours, [E] then I got a [B] mighty roar.
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Frankie [Bm] kicked the mine the day that [E] mankind [B] kicked the [F#] moon.
God help me, _ _ _ he was going home [E] in June.
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I can [D] still see Frankie [A] drinking tinnies [E] in the [Bm] Grand Hotel.
On a [F#m] 36 [A] hour reg leap [Bm] in Bontow. _ _
And I can [D] still hear Frankie [A] lying screaming in the [Em] jungle.
[Bm] Till [F#m] the morphine came [A] and killed [Bm] the bloody row. _
[F#] And the Anzac legends didn't mention [E] mud and blood and [Bm] tears.
[F#] And the stories that my father told me [E] never seemed quite [Bm] real.
And [Em] I caught some pieces [B] in my back that I [E] didn't even [Bm] feel.
[F#] God help me, _ _ _ _ I was only [Em] 19.
_ _ [F#] And can you tell me doctor, why [E] I still can't get [B] to sleep?
[F#] And why the channel 7 [E] chopper chills me to [B] my feet?
[E] And what's this rash [B] that comes and goes?
Can you tell me what [F#] it means?
God help me, _ _ _ I was only [Em] 19. _ _
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