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