Jackie's Song (The Mutton Birds)

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