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[Verse 1]
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For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky
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Of droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty
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this country's dust and mud, has seen my tears and blood
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy


[Verse 2]
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I married a fine girl when I was twenty
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But she died in giving birth when she was thirty
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No Flying Doctor then, just a gentle old black friend
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy


[Interlude]
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[Verse 3]
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She left me with two sons and a daughter
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And a bone dry farm whose soil cried out for water
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So my care was rough and ready, but they grew up fine and steady
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy


[Verse 4]
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My daughter married young, and went her own way
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My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
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So on this land I've made my own, I've carried on alone
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy


[Interlude]
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[Verse 5]
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City folks, these days, despise the cocky
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Say with subsidies and all, we've had it easy
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But there's no drought or starving stock, on a sewered suburban Block
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy


[Verse 6]
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For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky
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Of droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty
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this country's dust and mud, has seen my tears and blood
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
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and now I'm easy