"There's nothing so lonesome, so morbid or drear, than to stand in a bar of a pub with no beer" ;)
Pub with No Beer - Slim Dusty
"Then a big Turkish shell knocked me arse over head,
And when I woke up in me hospital bed
And saw what it had done, well, I wished I was dead --
Never knew there was worse things than dying."
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - Eric Bogle
Edit: That's spooky Malk, I hadn't seen your edit...it's a great tune. Redgum do it well too.
"Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon,
God help me, he was going home in June.
I can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row.
And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real.
I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel
God help me, I was only nineteen."
"I Was Only 19" aka "A Walk in the Light Green" - Redgum
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