Lyrics - Now I'm Easy

Artists Forum Lyrics Most Popular New stuff Search Board Rules

Welcome Guest ( Log In | Register )

Forum > Lyrics > Now I'm Easy

Now I'm Easy

Eric Bogle
For nearly sixty years I've been a cockie Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy I married a fine girl when I was twenty She died in giving birth when she was thirty No flying doctor then just a gentle old black gen But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy She left me with two sons and a daughter And a bone dry farm whose soil cried out for water Though me care was rough and ready, they grew up fine and steady But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy Me daughter married young and went her own way Me sons lie buried by the Burma railway So on this land I've made me home, I've carried on alone But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy Oh, city folks these days despise the cockie Saying with subsidies and dole we've had it easy But there's no drought or starving stock on the sewered suburban block But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy For nearly sixty years I've been a cockie Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy This page has been viewed 3657 times � Eric Bogle

For nearly sixty years I've been a cockie
Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty
This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

I married a fine girl when I was twenty
She died in giving birth when she was thirty
No flying doctor then just a gentle old black gen
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

She left me with two sons and a daughter
And a bone dry farm whose soil cried out for water
Though me care was rough and ready, they grew up fine and steady
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

Me daughter married young and went her own way
Me sons lie buried by the Burma railway
So on this land I've made me home, I've carried on alone
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

Oh, city folks these days despise the cockie
Saying with subsidies and dole we've had it easy
But there's no drought or starving stock on the sewered suburban block
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

For nearly sixty years I've been a cockie
Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty
This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy

This page has been viewed 3657 times

� Eric Bogle

Lo-Fi Version

Time is now: 13th December 2010 - 07:55 PM

Licensed to: The Celtic Lyrics Collection