The Dubliners – Now Im Easy (Guitar Fingerpicking)

Basic fingerpicking pattern:
  G                 C                 D
e|-----------------|-----------------|-------2-------2-|
B|-------0-------0-|-------1-------1-|---3-------3-----|
G|---0-------0-----|---0-------0-----|-----2-------2---|
D|-----0-------0---|-----2-------2---|-0-------0-------|
A|-----------------|-3-------3-------|-----------------|
E|-3-------3-------|-----------------|-----------------|
 | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + |

G                                   C
For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky

G                                                   D
Of droughts and fires and floods I’ve lived through plenty

G                           C                      G
This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood

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

G                                C
I married a fine girl when I was twenty

G                                     D
She died in giving birth when she was thirty

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

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

G                                C
She left me with two sons and a daughter

G                                            D
And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water

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

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

G                                          C
My daughter married young and went her own way

G                               D
My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway

G                                 C                G
So on this land I've made me home, I've carried on alone

                     D                G
But it’s nearly over now, and now I’m easy

G                                 C
City folks these days despise the cocky

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

G                                             C                G
But there’s no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block

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

G                                   C
For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky

G                                                    D
Of droughts and fires and floods, I’ve lived through plenty

G                            C                      G
This country's dust and mud, have seen my tears and blood

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

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