Here are the Lyrics to the Slim Dusty song, Kokoda Track

Kokoda Track

With no shouldered arms or bayonets fixed they march on Anzac Day,
The measured tramp of steel shod heels a memory away.
Veterans of a jungle war who went to hell and back,
Those ragged, bloody heroes of that grim Kokoda Track.

So dig your reversed rifles in the mire of memory,
The swirling mists of time have healed the scars.
You climbed that golden stairway to keep our country free,
Where the jungle hid your nightmare from the stars.

When sullen days brought no relief from blood and muck and mire,
And death was ever striding at your back,
You trod that hallowed path to be baptized in hellfire,
The ragged bloody heroes of that grim Kokoda Track.

Oh the devil took the hindmost and the snipers took the fore,
With no quarter asked or given in that muddy, bloody war.
With black angels there to guide them and the salvos by their side,
Those ragged bloody heroes simply marched and fought and died.

[Instrumental]

Astride a broken mountain top you stood defiantly,
As the devil took your comrades one by one,
He taunted you and beckoned you to face eternity,
You saluted with a burning Thompson gun

His hand was on your shoulder like a burning grip of steel,
But you turned him and you fought off his attack.
You broke the devils squadrons and you brought him to your heel,
The ragged bloody heroes of that grim Kokoda Track.

Oh the devil took the hindmost and the snipers took the fore,
With no quarter asked or given in that muddy bloody war.
While politicians pondered and great generals swelled with pride,
Those ragged bloody heroes simply marched and fought and died.

With no shouldered arms or bayonets fixed they march on Anzac Day,
With the memory of white crosses and the mounds of fresh turned clay.
Of green fields and a bugle call and a solemn requiem,
[spoken]
"And at the going down of the sun, and in the morning we will remember them."

Those ragged bloody heroes of that grim Kokoda Track.
Those ragged bloody heroes of that grim Kokoda Track.

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From his album: "Natural High"