Now I'm Easy

For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky

Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty

This country's dust and mud has seen my tears and blood

But it's nearly over now, now I'm easy

I married a fine young girl when I was twenty

She died in givin' birth when she was thirty

No flyin' doctors then, just a kindly old black gen

But it's nearly over now, now I'm easy

She left me with two sons and a daughter

On this bone-dry farm that's cryin' out for water

Though my care was rough and ready, they grew up fine and steady

But it's nearly over now, now I'm easy

My daughter married young and went her own way

My sons lie buried beneath the Burma Railway

And on this land I've made my own, I'll carry on alone

But it's nearly over now, now I'm easy

City folk these days despise the cocky

Sayin' with subsidies and dole they've had it easy

There's no drought or starving stock in this sood suburban block

But it's nearly over now, now I'm easy

For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky

Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty

This country's dust and mud has seen my tears and blood

But it's nearly over now, now I'm easy

But it's nearly over now, now I'm easy