Eric Bogle Now I`m Easy Lyrics

Now I`m Easy Lyrics

"NOW I'M EASY"

- Eric Bogle



For nearly sixty years, I've been a
Cockie

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



I married a fine girl when I was twenty

But
she died in giving birth when she was thirty

No flying doctor then, just a
gentle old black 'gin

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




She left me with two sons and a daughter

On a bone-dry farm whose soil
cried out for water

So my care was rough and ready, but 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 me home, I've carried on alone

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

 

City folks these days despise
the Cockie

Say with subsidies and dole, we've had it easy

But there's
no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block

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

 

For nearly sixty years, I've been a
Cockie

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

And now I'm easy

 

NOTES:

Cockie:
Australian small-scale family farmer

'Gin ("Jen"): an Australian aboriginal
woman

(The term is nowadays considered to be derogatory)