Now I'm Easy

[D]             [D7]
F[G]or nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky

 [D]
O[A7]f droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty

Y[D]es, this country's d[D7]ust and mu[G]d, has seen my tear[D]s and blood
         *
B[A7]ut it's nearly ove[G]r now,[D] and now I'm easy___

 [D]               [D7]
I[G] married a fine girl when I was twenty

 [D]
B[A7]ut she died in giving birth when she was thirty

N[D]o Flying Doctor[D7] then, just a [G]gentle old black g[D]in
         *
B[A7]ut it's nearly ove[G]r now,[D] and now I'm easy___

 [D]                 [D7]
S[G]he left me with two sons and a daughter

 [D]
A[A7]nd a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water

S[D]o my care was rough [D7]and ready, but th[G]ey grew up fine an[D]d steady
         *
B[A7]ut it's nearly ove[G]r now,[D] and now I'm easy___

 [D]                 [D7]
M[G]y daughter married young, and went her own way

 [D]
M[A7]y sons lie buried by the Burma Railway

S[D]o on this land I've[D7] made my ow[G]n, I've carrie[D]d on a-lone
         *
B[A7]ut it's nearly ove[G]r now,[D] and now I'm easy___

City folks, these days, despise the cocky
Say with subsidies and all, we've had it easy
But there's no drought or starving stock, on your sewered suburban block
But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy

ENDING: REPEAT FIRST VERSE

NOTES:
- "*" in chord line represents a new bar, play same chord
- "." in the lyric line represents a 1/8 note rest
- Gin ("Jen"): an Australian aboriginal woman
- The term is now considered as derogatory as "squaw"