Kokoda Lyrics

There are things sometimes I wish I'd told you

But I've never liked to talk about the war

We lied about our ages and although we were courageous

We didn't know what was in store

Won't you stay with me because I feel so cold

And I don't believe I'll see you the dawn

And if you don't mind I'd like a hand to hold

And treat me gentle in the morning

At first we had to leave Kokoda

I saw a young man take a bullet on the way

I hardly knew the bloke but I hear the words he spoke

They still haunt me to this day

Won't you stay with me because I feel so cold

And I don't believe I'll see you the dawn

And if you don't mind I'd like a hand to hold

And treat me gentle in the morning

So we carried him into the mountains

Gave him water and some morphine for the pain

Made him up a makeshift bed sowed him up with cat gut thread

Then he asked me once again

Won't you stay with me because I feel so cold

And I don't believe I'll see you the dawn

And if you don't mind I'd like a hand to hold

And treat me gentle in the morning

He lasted just a few more hours

We were there to give him comfort through it all

We laid him down to rest, placed his rifle on his chest

Sang old Lang Syne as I recall

Won't you stay with me because I feel so cold

And I don't believe I'll see you the dawn

And if you don't mind I'd like a hand to hold

And treat me gentle in the morning

Perhaps one day you walk Kokoda

And the track it's self will test you to the core

But you won't wake in fright from a mountain gun at night

So spare a thought for those before

Won't you stay with me because I feel so cold

And I don't believe I'll see you the dawn

And if you don't mind I'd like a hand to hold

And treat me gentle in the morning