Now I'm Easy Lyrics - Singles - Eric Bogle

"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)