Now I’m easy
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1. For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky,
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of droughts and fires and floods
I've lived through plenty.
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This country's dust and mud
have seen my tears and blood,
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but it's nearly over now, and now
I'm easy.
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2. I married a fine girl when I was twenty,
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but she died in giving birth
when she was thirty.
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No flying doctor then, just a
gentle old black gin,
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but it's nearly over now, and
now I'm easy.
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3. She left me with two sons and a daughter,
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and a bone dry farm whose soil
cried out for water.
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So my care was rough and
ready, but they grew up fine and steady,
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but it's nearly over now, and
now I'm easy.
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4. My daughter married young and went her own way,
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my sons lie buried by the
Burma Railway.
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So on this land I've made me
own, I've carried on alone,
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but it's nearly over now, and
now I'm easy.
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5. City folks these days despise the cocky,
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say with subsidies and all
we've had it easy.
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But there's no drought or
starving stock,
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on a sewered
suburban plot,
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but it's nearly over now, and
now I'm easy.
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6. For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky,
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A
of droughts and fires and
floods I've lived through plenty.
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This country's dust and mud
have seen my tears and blood,
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but it's nearly over now, and
now I'm easy.
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And now I'm easy.
(Eric Bogle)