Gordon Bok – Now Im Easy (Guitar)

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It's nearly sixty years I've been a Cocky

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Of drought and fire and flood 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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I married a fine girl when I was twenty

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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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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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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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City folk these days despise the Cocky

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They say, with subsidies and all, we've had it easy

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But there's no drought or dying stock on a sewered suburban lot

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

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It's nearly sixty years I've been a Cocky

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Of drought and fire and flood 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