Now Im Easy

Basic fingerpicking pattern: G C D | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + | G C For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky G D Of droughts and fires and floods I’ve lived through plenty G C G This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood D G But it's nearly over now, and now I’m easy G C I married a fine girl when I was twenty G D She died in giving birth when she was thirty G C G No flying doctor then, just a gentle old black 'gin D G But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy G C She left me with two sons and a daughter G D And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water G C G Though my care was rough and ready, they grew up fine and steady D G But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy G C My daughter married young and went her own way G D My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway G C G So on this land I've made me home, I've carried on alone D G But it’s nearly over now, and now I’m easy G C City folks these days despise the cocky G D Say with subsidies and dole, we've had it easy G C G But there’s no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block D G But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy G C For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky G D Of droughts and fires and floods, I’ve lived through plenty G C G This country's dust and mud, have seen my tears and blood D G But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy D G But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy