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Another Bloody War Song

from Tracks 40 - 52 of the 52 songs project by Dave Walker

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Track 45 of the 52 songs project

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My grandad paid me a visit last night, even though he’s been dead for near twenty years.
He said why don’t you tell them a bit about me and all that I went through to keep this place free.
I said where do I start Pop, there’s a fair bit to say, should I pull up your war file and start from the day that you signed up with your mates at the Caulfield town hall and joined the commandos down on the prom.

He said sing me another bloody war song,
Sing about the blokes who answered the call and fought in New Guinea and we bet on flying pennies
My body was broken and my mind was all torn.
Did all his training down at Tidal River, learning the skills that would keep him alive, a long winding train trip right up to Townsville then a low flying plane to Port Moresby by night.
There were too many fights and too many deaths and too many ways to wind up insane.
There were three tours in total – 800 days service, and at just 21, he was an old man.

He came home near death at the end of the war, he’d seen the fight through til the battle was done.
Scrub typhus, dysentery and a dose of malaria, New Guinea trifecta but the bookies had won
The old Austin Repat was his home for three months, along with the diggers who’d been wounded and maimed.
He walked out of there with a handful of medals a new wife by his side and a lifetime of pain.

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from Tracks 40 - 52 of the 52 songs project, track released November 20, 2012

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Dave Walker made his first record in 1998 and has been churning them out ever since. Variety of styles and a whole range of different musicians.

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