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Revised from numeric notation to Key of C

NOW I'M EASY    Time: 2/2 (syncopated)    Tenor: D    Bass: C
- Eric Bogle, 1985?, Record: Now I'm Easy
- Record: Wild Colonial Boys, Best Album (as: The Cockie Farmer)
- Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 15 (D)

DD Piano Chord 
            D7D7 Piano Chord 
                 GG Piano Chord 
       *
For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky
DD Piano Chord 
                      *                          A7A7 Piano Chord 
        *
Of droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty
DD Piano Chord 
                  D7D7 Piano Chord 
       GG Piano Chord 
                 DD Piano Chord 

Yes, this country's dust and mud, has seen my tears and blood
*           A7A7 Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
    DD Piano Chord 

But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___

DD Piano Chord 
              D7D7 Piano Chord 
              GG Piano Chord 
       *
I married a fine girl when I was twenty
DD Piano Chord 
              *                  A7A7 Piano Chord 
       *
But she died in giving birth when she was thirty
DD Piano Chord 
             D7D7 Piano Chord 
           GG Piano Chord 
                DD Piano Chord 

No Flying Doctor then, just a gentle old black gin
*           A7A7 Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
    DD Piano Chord 

But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___

DD Piano Chord 
                D7D7 Piano Chord 
         GG Piano Chord 
         *
She left me with two sons and a daughter
DD Piano Chord 
                   *                  A7A7 Piano Chord 
      *
And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water
DD Piano Chord 
                  D7D7 Piano Chord 
              GG Piano Chord 
                DD Piano Chord 

So my care was rough and ready, but they grew up fine and steady
*           A7A7 Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
    DD Piano Chord 

But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___

DD Piano Chord 
                D7D7 Piano Chord 
                  GG Piano Chord 
         *
My daughter married young, and went her own way
DD Piano Chord 
               *            A7A7 Piano Chord 
       *
My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
DD Piano Chord 
                 D7D7 Piano Chord 
        GG Piano Chord 
            DD Piano Chord 

So on this land I've made my own, I've carried on a-lone
*           A7A7 Piano Chord 
               GG Piano Chord 
    DD Piano Chord 

But it's nearly over now, 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"

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