Safe Behind The Wire


Intro

             

             
When the bodie

          
s were bagged 

and the telegr

ams sent
             
And the very l

              
ast chopper ha

    
d gone
            
And you looked

              
 out the windo

             
w of the 707 o

            
n the airfield

    
 in Saigon,
             
Some of us tho

              
ught that the 

    
war was over
             
Some of us cou

          
ldn’t care les

s;
             
But you came h

              
ome and threw 

             
a stay-behind 

             
party to try t

              
o clear up the

  
 mess.

             
I don’t know w

             
here you are t

             
onight..I’m do

              
wn here in a f


irefight…
           
But where-ever

              
 you are, I ho

             
pe you’re safe

            
 behind the wi

      
re.

             
We were fighti

              
ng for freedom

            
 in South-East

             
 Asia…. That’s

              
 how the story

  
 ran;
             
Windy speeches

             
 about a domin

              
o falling from

          
 China into Vi

etnam…
             
But look back 

              
in sickness an

           
d anger,   Aus

              
tralia didn’t 

           
honour her deb

t;
             
And non-commis

             
sion Officer T

              
hompson learne

             
d that the war

             
 wasn’t over y

et.


             
Living on your

             
 nerves, livin

              
g on the phone

             
 and sleeping 

            
in airports fa

r from home….
           
Dusted off now

            
 and safe behi

           
nd the wire.


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Well he have a

              
nd he gave and

            
 he kept on gi

             
ving, till he 

              
just couldn’t 


give anymore;
             
And he gave it

             
 away one morn

              
ing in Sydney 

            
in a rust-red 


Commodore…

             
And I remember

              
 Phill best ta

            
lking on the p

             
hone, with a c

              
heeky grin on 


his face….
             
Because Royal 

              
Commissioners 

    
and Knights of

 the Realm 
             
Thought that P

              
hill didn’t kn

       
ow his place.

             
I don’t know w

             
here you are t

             
onight..I’m do

              
wn here in a f


irefight…
           
But where-ever

              
 you are, I ho

             
pe you’re safe

            
 behind the wi

      
re.

             
And the’re sti

              
ll bagging bod

             
ies, Phill, th

              
ough fourteen 

           
years have gon

e;
             
And the mums a

              
nd the dads an

              
d the wives an

             
d the kids sti

        
ll have to sol

dier on.

             
I don’t know w

             
here you are t

             
onight..I’m do

              
wn here in a f


irefight…
           
But where-ever

              
 you are, I ho

             
pe you’re safe

            
 behind the wi

      
re.

             
I don’t know w

             
here you are t

             
onight..I’m do

              
wn here in a f


irefight…
           
But where-ever

              
 you are, I ho

             
pe you’re safe

            
 behind the wi

            
re.