Tonalità: Bb major
Verse 1
B
E
For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky
B
Of droughts and fires and floods
F#
I've lived through plenty
B
This country's dust and mud
E
B
I've seen my tears and blood
F#
B
But it's nearly over now and now I'm easy
E
I married a fine girl when I was twenty
B
But she died in given birth
F#
when she was thirty
B
There was no flying doctor then
E
B
Just a gentle old black djinn
F#
But it's nearly over now,
B
and now I'm easy
E
She left me with two sons and a daughter
B
And a bone -dry farm
F#
whose soil cried out for water
B
So my care was rough and ready
E
B
But they grew up fine and steady
F#
But it's nearly over now,
B
and now I'm easy
My daughter married young
E
and went her own way
B
F#
My sons lie buried by the Burma railway
B
So on this land I've made me own
E
B
I've carried on alone
F#
But it's nearly over now,
B
and now I'm easy
City folks these days
E
despise the cocky
B
They say with subsidies and all,
F#
we've had it easy
B
But there's no drought or starving stock
E
B
On a sewered suburban block
F#
But it's nearly over now,
B
and now I'm easy you
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