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For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie |
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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 have seen my tears and blood |
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy |
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I married a fine girl when I was twenty |
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She died in giving birth when she was thirty |
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No flying doctor then, just a gentle old black 'gin |
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy |
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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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Though my care was rough and ready, they grew up fine and steady |
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy |
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Me daughter married young, and went her own way |
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Me sons lie buried by the Burma Railway |
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So on this land I've made me home, I've carried on alone |
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy |
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Oh city folks these days despise the Cockie |
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Say with subsidies and dole, 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 |
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For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie |
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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 have seen my tears and blood |
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy |
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But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy |
