Now Im Easy

    D            D7               
For nearly sixty years, I've been 
  G       *
a cocky
   D                      *       
Of droughts and fires and floods, 
                   A7        *
I've lived through plenty
          D                  D7   
Yes, this country's dust and mud, 
    G                 D
has seen my tears and blood
         *           A7           
But it's nearly over now, and now 
    G    D
I'm easy___


  D              D7              
I married a fine girl when I was 
G       *
twenty
        D              *          
But she died in giving birth when 
        A7       *
she was thirty
   D             D7           G  
No Flying Doctor then, just a 
              D
gentle old black gin
         *           A7           
But it's nearly over now, and now 
    G    D
I'm easy___

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    D                D7       
She left me with two sons and a 
  G         *
daughter
      D                   *         
And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried
         A7      *
 out for water
      D                  D7       
So my care was rough and ready, 
       G                D
but they grew up fine and steady
         *           A7           
But it's nearly over now, and now 
    G    D
I'm easy___

   D                D7            
My daughter married young, and 
      G         *
went her own way
   D               *            
My sons lie buried by the Burma 
A7       *
Railway
           D                 D7   
So on this land I've made my own, 
     G            D
I've carried on a-lone
         *           A7           
But it's nearly over now, and now 
    G    D
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: D PEAT 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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|  Barrie McCombs, MD, CCFP(EM)  |  
    Family Physician by Day         
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|  bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca      |  
    Folk Musician by Night          
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|  Voice: (403) 220-8551         |  
                                    
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|  Fax:   (403) 270-2330         |  
     "Semper Ubi, Sub Ubi"          
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