The Dubliners - Now I'm Easy

Now I'm Easy

For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky
Of droughts and fires and floods
I've lived through plenty
This country's dust and mud
Have seen my tears and blood
But it's nearly over now
And now I'm easy

I married a fine girl when I was twenty
She died in giving birth
When she was thirty
No flying doctor then
Just a gentle old black gen.
But it's nearly over now
And now I'm easy

She left me with two sons and a daughter
And a bone dry farm
Whose soil cried out for water
Though my care was rough and ready
They grew up fine and steady
But it's nearly over now
And now I'm easy

My daughter married young
And went her own way
My sons lie buried
By the Burma railway
So on this land I've made me home
I've acrried on alone
But it's nearly over now
And now I'm easy

Oh, city folks, these days despise the cocky
Saying with subsidies and dole
We've had it easy
But there's no drought or starving stock
On the sewered suburban block
But it's nearly over now
And now I'm easy

For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky
Of droughts and fires and floods
I've lived through plenty
This country's dust and mud
Have seen my tears and blood
But it's nearly over now
And now I'm easy
But it's nearly over now
And now I'm easy