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Thread #35787   Message #4080748
Posted By: GerryM
23-Nov-20 - 10:51 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Now I'm Easy (Eric Bogle) - 'cocky'
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Missing word: Now I'm Easy (Eric Bogle)
Second line of the "City folks" verse –
Post from Ted From Australia, 08 Mar 15 - 10:10 PM goes,

Say with subsidies and all we've had it easy.

And that's how I often hear it sung. But I've also heard it sung (and seen it posted) as

Say with subsidies and dole we've had it easy.

I don't know which is the way Bogle wrote it. So far as I can see, there's no official Bogle website with lyrics.