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NOW I'M EASY
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ERIC BOGLE
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"NOW I'M EASY"
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- Eric Bogle
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For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie
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Of droughts and fires and floods 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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But 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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On 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 home, 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 folks these days despise the Cockie
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Say with subsidies and dole, we've had it easy
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But there's no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
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For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie
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Of droughts and fires and floods, 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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And now I'm easy
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NOTES:
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Cockie: Australian small-scale family farmer
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'Gin ("Jen"): an Australian aboriginal woman
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(The term is nowadays considered to be derogatory)
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