Jackie's Song

A fine mess we're in Jackie

A clearing in the bush

The trees are all tangled up, and they're the wrong

Shade of green

And 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

Jackie I said I'd take you dancing to your song

Silver medals shining

And the dust from a foreign road in your hair

Jackie I said I'd take you dancing everywhere

We were told there was a dozen of them

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

Till the next rain comes down

Jackie I said I'd take you dancing ...

Those old men singing back at home

I'd like to bring them here

Show them around, let them see what they have done

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 everywhere