https://youtube/watch?v=mczBi0dqJZw Australian Folk Tune written by Eric Bogle NOW IM EASY - Eric Bogle For nearly sixty years, Ive been a Cockie Of droughts and fires and floods Ive lived through plenty This countrys dust and mud have seen my tears and blood But its nearly over now, and now Im 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 its nearly over now, and now Im 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 its nearly over now, and now Im easy My daughter married young, and went her own way My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway So on this land Ive made me home, Ive carried on alone But its nearly over now, and now Im easy City folks these days despise the Cockie Say with subsidies and dole, weve had it easy But theres no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block But its nearly over now, and now Im easy For nearly sixty years, Ive been a Cockie Of droughts and fires and floods, Ive lived through plenty This countrys dust and mud, have seen my tears and blood But its nearly over now, and now Im easy And now Im easy NOTES: Cockie: Australian small-scale family farmer Gin (Jen): an Australian aboriginal woman (The term is nowadays considered to be derogatory) Read more: ERIC BOGLE - NOW IM EASY Lyrics | MetroLyrics
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 13:23:49 +0000
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