[00:08.956]For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie
[00:17.351]Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty
[00:25.433]This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood
[00:33.452]But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
[00:40.445]
[00:41.851]I married a fine girl when I was twenty
[00:50.164]She died in giving birth when she was thirty
[00:58.489]No flying doctor then, just a gentle old black 'gin
[01:06.707]But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
[01:13.334]
[01:15.109]She left me with two sons and a daughter
[01:23.467]And a bone-dry farm whose soil cried out for water
[01:31.679]Though my care was rough and ready, they grew up fine and steady
[01:40.012]But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
[01:46.976]
[01:48.288]Me daughter married young, and went her own way
[01:56.599]Me sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
[02:04.732]So on this land I've made me home, I've carried on alone
[02:13.007]But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
[02:21.483]
[02:55.167]Oh city folks these days despise the Cockie
[03:03.162]Say with subsidies and dole, we've had it easy
[03:11.345]But there's no drought or starving stock on a sewered suburban block
[03:19.918]But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
[03:25.687]
[03:28.292]For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie
[03:36.295]Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty
[03:44.444]This country's dust and mud have seen my tears and blood
[03:52.639]But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy
[04:02.534]But it's nearly over now, and now I'm easy