Key: Bb major
Verse 1
F#
B
For nearly 60 years I've been a cocky
F#
Of draughts and fires and floods
C#
I've lived through plenty
F#
This country's dust and mud
B
F#
Have seen my tears and blood
C#
But it's nearly over now
B
F#
And now I'm easy
Verse 2
F#
B
I married a fine girl when I was 20
F#
C#
She died in giving birth when she was 30
F#
No flying doctor then,
B
F#
just a gentle old black gen
C#
But it's nearly over now
B
F#
And now I'm easy
Verse 3
F#
B
She left me with two sons and a daughter
F#
And a bone dry farm whose soil
C#
cried out for wa ter
F#
Though me care was rough
and ready
B
F#
They grew up fine and steady
C#
But it's nearly over now
B
F#
And now I'm easy
Verse 4
F#
Me daughter married young
B
and went her own way
F#
C#
My sons lie buried by the Burma railway
F#
So, on this land I've made me home
B
F#
I carried on alone
C#
But it's nearly over now
B
F#
And now I'm easy
Verse 5
F#
All city folks these days
B
despise the cocky
F#
Saying with subsidies and
C#
dole we've had it easy
F#
But there's no drought or starving stock
B
F#
On the sewered suburban block
C#
But it's nearly over now
B
F#
And now I'm easy
Verse 6
F#
B
For nearly 60 years I've been a cocky
F#
Of droughts and fires and floods
C#
I've lived through plenty
F#
This country's dust and mud
B
F#
Have seen my tears and blood
C#
But it's nearly over now
B
F#
And now I'm easy
Verse 7
F#
C#
But it's nearly over now
B
And now I'm easy
F#
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsF# B C#
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