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Revised from numeric notation to Key of C
Time: 2/2 (syncopated) Tenor: D Bass: C
RE RE7 SOL
For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky
RE LA7
Of droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty
RE RE7 SOL RE
Yes, this country's dust and mud, has seen my tears and blood
LA7 SOL RE
But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___
RE RE7 SOL
I married a fine girl when I was twenty
RE LA7
But she died in giving birth when she was thirty
RE RE7 SOL RE
No Flying Doctor then, just a gentle old black gin
LA7 SOL RE
But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___
RE RE7 SOL
She left me with two sons and a daughter
RE LA7
And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water
RE RE7 SOL RE
So my care was rough and ready, but they grew up fine and steady
LA7 SOL RE
But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___
RE RE7 SOL
My daughter married young, and went her own way
RE LA7
My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
RE RE7 SOL RE
So on this land I've made my own, I've carried on a-lone
LA7 SOL RE
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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