Now Im Easy

D D7 G Gsus4 G For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky D D7 A7 Amaj7/E Of droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty D D7 C G Yes, this country's dust and mud, has seen my tears and blood D A7 G D But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy D D7 G Gsus4 G I married a fine girl when I was twenty D D7 A7 Amaj7/E But she died in giving birth when she was thirty D D7 C G No Flying Doctor then, just a gentle old black gin D A7 G D But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy D D7 G Gsus4 G She left me with two sons and a daughter D D7 A7 Amaj7/E And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water D D7 G D So my care was rough and ready, but they grew up fine and steady D A7 G D But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy D D7 G Gsus4 G My daughter married young, and went her own way D D7 A7 Amaj7/E My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway D D7 C G So on this land I've made my own, I've carried on a-lone D A7 G D But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy D D7 G Gsus4 G City folks, these days, despise the cocky D D7 A7 Amaj7/E Say with subsidies and all, we've had it easy D D7 C G But there's no drought or starving stock, on your sewered suburban block D A7 G D But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy D D7 G Gsus4 G For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky D D7 A7 Amaj7/E Of droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty D D7 C G Yes, this country's dust and mud, has seen my tears and blood D A7 G D But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy