I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)
2015 · ABC Music 0602547172938 · Corryong, Australia
- Artist
- Lee Kernaghan
- Title
- I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)
- Release
- Spirit of the Anzacs
- Year
- 2015
- Label
- ABC Music # 0602547172938
- Format
- CD · Album
- Language
- English
- Country
- Corryong, Australia
- Songwriter
- John Schumann
- Genre
- Country · Contemporary Country
- Primary theme
- Post-War
Annotation
Country artist, born 15 April 1964 in Corryong, Victoria, Australia. He released this album ( ABC Music # 0602547172938) to mark the 100th anniversary of the ANZAC landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers at Gallipoli during the First World War. It largely contained songs about the First World War and Second World War, but also Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. The songs referencing the Vietnam conflict were "Spirit of the Anzacs", "Tell Carmelita", and "The Unbearable Price of War". The deluxe edition of the album came with a cover of " I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green) ", originally released by Redgum (1983), composed by John Schumann. For the title song "Spirit of the Anzacs", Kernaghan joined forces with Australian-based artists Guy Sebastian, Sheppard, Jon Stevens, Jessica Mauboy, Shannon Noll, and Meg Washington, for the release of a charity single. The song was a patriotic tribute which referenced several wars and roles. In the case of Vietnam, it focused on the nurses: "she's a nurse in Vietnam... she's all of them, she's one of us... the spirit of the Anzacs". The song "Tell Carmelita" was narrated from the perspective of a soldier in Vietnam, missing his…
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
Deluxe edition bonus track; cover of the Redgum song.
About the artist
Lee Kernaghan - country singer born 15 April 1964 in Corryong, Victoria.
Themes
ANZUS · PTSD · Agent Orange · Drugs · Vet · Soldier's Perspective · Helicopter