Don McGlashan

Lyrics

A fine mess we're in Jackie, a clearing in the bush
and the trees are all tangled up and they're the wrong shade of green .
Where the sap never stops running , the leaves they never fall
and the birds laugh like drunken garrison girls.

Jackie I said I'd take you dancing,
dancing bright and strong.
Jackie I said I'd take you dancing to your song.
With silver medals shining and the dust from a foreign road in your hair,
Jackie I said I'd take you dancing.

We were told there were a dozen runaways and injured men.
They weren't supposed to put up such a fight.
Now, who'd have thought blood would have so many colours .
Soaking the grass beneath you like all the others.
A spreading stain on the swampy ground 'til the next rain comes down.

Those old men singing back at home
I'd like to bring them here.
Show them round , show them what they've done.
Where the sap never stops running,
the leaves they never fall
and the birds laugh like drunken garrison girls.