Now I'm Easy

For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky

Of draughts and fires and floods

I've lived through plenty

This country's dust and mud

Have seen my tears and blood

But it's nearly over now

And now I'm easy

I married a fine girl when I was twenty

She died in giving birth when she was thirty

No flying doctor then, just a gentle old black gen

But it's nearly over now

And now I'm easy

She left me with two sons and a daughter

And a bone dry farm whose soil cried out for water

Though my care was rough and ready

They grew up fine and steady

But it's nearly over now

And now I'm easy

My daughter married young and went her own way

My sons lie buried by the Burma railway

So on this land I've made my home

I carried on alone

But it's nearly over now

And now I'm easy

Ah city folks these day despise the cocky

Saying with subsidies and dole we've had it easy

But there's no drought or starving stock

On the sewered suburban block

But it's nearly over now

And 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

Have seen my tears and blood

But it's nearly over now

And now I'm easy

But it's nearly over now

And now I'm easy