Bulldog Ants Are Biting

Bulldog ants are biting KOKODA 1942 Oh yes its very popular to walk the Kokoda Track And people by the dozen have done just bloomin that I you were there in forty two it wasn’t as much fun With a hundred weight upon your back and a ten pound threeo gun You climbed the golden stairs knee deep in the mud The mountains just got higher and the mossies wanted blood A little pimple on your leg became an oozing ulcer Iodine rag screwed in the wound by some flaming vulture The Jap would lay in ambush so you watched the bloody bush And you couldn’t stop a watching and no bloody food you wuss? Then its raining food and ammo bully beef splat up a tree Dog biscuits shattered breadcrumbs fill your pocket up for free Till they got mouldy? You’d be alone in the jungle and you would meet a scouting Jap He’d fire all his bullets from his Arisaka …. Crack Then he’d come for you with a bayonet on a rifle at hi port And you’d try the bayonet fighting or plonk his brisket sport The bloody Diaorea made you weak , no strength in your knees The woodpecker is buzzing taking bark of all the trees So your eyes are full of bark chips Joe's throwing sticks at me And the Bulldog ants are biting what an awful place to be Choices bitten, shot or clubbed by friendly sticks Stop jumping around you’re drawing the crabs Woodpecker hammers my tree And the bloody ants are biting And I can’t quite bloody see how it was my dad said on Kokoda...... Don Johnson http://www.scullywag.com/kokoda1942stoush/