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 me care was rough and ready they grew up fine and steady but it s nearly over now and now i m easy me daughter married young and went her own way me sons lie buried by the burma railway so on this land i ve made me home i ve carried 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