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

Has seen my tears and blood

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

She left me with two sons and a daughter

And 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, 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 own

I've carried on alone

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

City folks these days despise the cocky

Say with subsidies and all we've had it easy

But there's no drought or starving stock

On a soot suburban block

But it's nearly over now, 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

Has seen my tears and blood

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