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Revised from numeric notation to Key of C NOW I'M EASY Time: 2/2 (syncopated) Tenor: D Bass: C - Eric Bogle, 1985?, Record: Now I'm Easy - Record: Wild Colonial Boys, Best Album (as: The Cockie Farmer) - Source: Eric Bogle Songbook, page 15 (D) C C7 F * For nearly sixty years, I've been a cocky C * G7 * Of droughts and fires and floods, I've lived through plenty
Yes, this Ccountry's dust and C7mud, has Fseen my tears and Cblood * G7 F C But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___
C C7 F * I married a fine girl when I was twenty C * G7 * But she died in giving birth when she was thirty
No CFlying Doctor C7then, just a Fgentle old black Cgin * G7 F C But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___
C C7 F * She left me with two sons and a daughter C * G7 * And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water
So my Ccare was rough and C7ready, but they Fgrew up fine and Csteady * G7 F C But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy___
C C7 F * My daughter married young, and went her own way C * G7 * My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
So on this Cland I've made my C7own, I've Fcarried on a-Clone * G7 F C But it's nearly over now, and now 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: REPEAT 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" --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Barrie McCombs, MD, CCFP(EM) | Family Physician by Day | | bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca | Folk Musician by Night | | Voice: (403) 220-8551 | | | Fax: (403) 270-2330 | "Semper Ubi, Sub Ubi" | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------