Now I'm Easy Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[D]"NOW I'M EASY"
[A]- Eric Bogle
For [D]nearly sixty years, I've been a Cock[G]ie
Of [D]droughts and fires and floods
I've lived through [A]plenty
This [D]country's dust and mud have
[G]seen my tears and [D]blood
But it's nearly over [A]now,
and now I'm [G]easy
[D]

[Verse 2]
I married a fine girl when I was [G]twenty
But she [D]died in giving birth
when she was [A]thirty
No [D]flying doctor then,
just a [G]gentle old black [D]'gin
But it's nearly over [A]now,
and now I'm [G]easy
[D]

[Verse 3]
She left me with two sons and a daugh[G]ter
On [D]a bone-dry farm farm whose
soil cried out for wa[A]ter
So my [D]care was rough and ready,
but they [G]grew up fine and [D]steady
But it's nearly over [A]now,
and now I'm [G]easy
[D]

[Verse 4]
My daughter married young,
and went her [G]own way
[D]My sons lie buried by the Burma Rail[A]way
So on this [D]land I've made me home,
I've [G]carried on [D]alone
But it's nearly over [A]now,
and now I'm [G]easy
[D]

[Verse 5]
City folks these days despise [G]the Cockie
Say with [D]subsidies and dole,
we've had it [A]easy
But there's no [D]drought or starving stock
on [G]a sewered suburban b[D]lock
But it's nearly over [A]now,
and now I'm [G]easy
[D]

[Verse 6]
For nearly sixty years, I've been [G]a Cockie
Of [D]droughts and fires and floods,
I've lived through [A]plenty
This [D]country's dust and mud,
have [G]seen my tears and [D]blood
But it's nearly over [A]now,
and now I'm [G]easy
And now [D]I'm easy

[Verse 7]
NOTES:
Cockie: Australian small-scale family farmer
'Gin ("Jen"): an Australian
aboriginal woman
(The term is nowadays considered
to be derogatory)