Kunci: D major
Verse 1
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- Eric Bogle
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For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie
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Of droughts and fires and floods
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I've lived through plenty
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This country's dust and mud have
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seen my tears and blood
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But it's nearly over now,
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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
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just a gentle old black 'gin
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But it's nearly over now,
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Verse 3
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She left me with two sons and a daughter
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On a bone-dry farm farm whose
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So my care was rough and ready,
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but they grew up fine and steady
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But it's nearly over now,
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Verse 4
My daughter married young,
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My sons lie buried by the Burma Railway
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So on this land I've made me home,
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I've carried on alone
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But it's nearly over now,
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Verse 5
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City folks these days despise the Cockie
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Say with subsidies and dole,
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But there's no drought or starving stock
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on a sewered suburban block
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But it's nearly over now,
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Verse 6
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For nearly sixty years, I've been a Cockie
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Of droughts and fires and floods,
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I've lived through plenty
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This country's dust and mud,
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have seen my tears and blood
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But it's nearly over now,
Verse 7
NOTES:
Cockie: Australian small-scale family farmer
'Gin ("Jen"): an Australian
aboriginal woman
(The term is nowadays considered
to be derogatory)
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