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Chorus:
I get
the Toucan Battery Blues, the Toucan Battery Blues,
Thinking 'bout my time in One-Oh-Two.
I smell cordite in the air,
Hear UH1s that aren't there,
I worry 'cause there's nothing I can do.
And now they say my stress is bad I gotta give up booze,
I get the Toucan Battery Blues.
Verse 1.
I remember all the
mortar rounds and all the R P G's
I remember all the tracer green and red.
But I can't remember yesterday or where I left my keys,
The Blues are really messin' with my head.
Rpt. Chorus
Verse 2.
I think of
digging shell-scrape holes and sandbags at Baria,
I think of H and I's and sleepless nights,
But the Mushroom Club was always there to have an ice-cold
beer,
Between the laughs and cigarettes and fights.
Bridge
Verse 3.
"Fire
Mission Battery" we heard the tannoys say,
Charge bags and shell cases everywhere.
We could easily fire all that night and into the next day,
(But) now I fall asleep just sitting in my chair.
Rpt. Chorus
Verse 4.
Well
Scrubber kept us on our toes, the sergeants did the rest,
We learnt to fire quick and very straight.
Together we all worked to make old one-oh-two the best,
But it was mateship in the end that made us great.
Guitar solo
Verse 5.
These days
I wish we could be like we were in sixty eight,
Young and having nothing much to lose.
But now we're stuffed and past it and we've left our run too
late,
And so I get the Toucan Battery Blues.
Rpt
Chorus. Rpt last line three times fading as per CD |
