Ronnie Drew - Now I'm Easy (ft. Stockton's Wing)

The Dubliners celebrate their 25th Anniversary with a special TV show in 1987 including special guests Stockton's Wing. The song was written by Eric Bogle. The Dubliners: Ronnie Drew, Barney McKenna, John Sheahan, Sean Cannon & Eamonn Campbell

[@jimbab39edin]

Played this at my fathers funeral he loved the song .loved ronnie rest in peace dad your loving son xx

[@russelsprout2155]

My father loves it aswel. ❤. RIP to your father mate

[@jimbab39edin]

Thanks sorely missed

[@deeksmusicstop4012]

I was in Dublin the day we lost ronnie drew I've never seen a city fall silent 😢 a movie g tribute

[@richardsullivan1022]

I still love Ronnie Drew where ever he is in Heaven God bless him ❤❤❤🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️😇😇😇

[@robertgrey6101]

A beautiful rendition of this song of word pictures. A great voice and beautiful band.

[@georgemacdonald5282]

Fantastic song and no one on the planet could sing it as brilliantly as Ronnie Drew.

[@georgemacdonald5282]

Apart from the amazing voice of Ronnie Drew the band compliment this song perfectly.

[@richardsullivan1022]

🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️😍😍God bless you hope your still singing Mr Drew. I still have childhood memories of watching you live with my old Dad. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jamiebyrne458]

Love this song and Paul roach playing flute. Genuine Irish legends

[@richardsullivan1022]

I hope he's teaching the Angels how too sing 😂😂God bless him 🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️😇🙏🎶🎶🎶❤️

[@robertgrey6101]

@richard In particular this song.

[@Celtic_Chronicle]

Only now I'm subscribing to the Dubliners? Whoa. I do miss Lukey ❤ 😢

[@sampage947]

We will never see or hear the likes of him again rip

[@user-cp6rp9zv9m]

Ι love you Ronnie Drew....❤❤❤❤...I love you Ireland....

[@richardsullivan1022]

God bless you Ronnie l used to come with my Dad and watch you live when you where with us. HOPE YOU'RE STILL SINGING IN HEVEN GOD BLESS YOU ALL NOT FORGETTING THE GREAT LUKE KELLY XXXX🕊️🕊️🕊️😇😇😇❤️❤️🙏🙏😢

[@paullinnane8135]

I would have loved to have met ronnie, great singer, I remember when he died in 2008, I remember being very sad when I was told he died

[@michaelheraghty309]

RONNIE DREW & LIAM CLANCY IRELAND'S FINEST SINGERS & BOTH REBELS .X

[@PercussusResurgo]

Luke Kelly has to be in any top three

[@21EpicFail]

In Christ's name, God Bless Ronnie Drew

[@mikeyates7931]

Amen 🙏

[@JM-bf5pq]

Thanks Ronnie. We miss you.

[@jimbanda]

I remember this special tribute show like it was yesterday.... Soo many years during which reality has met this song head on many times 😢 Love to all.

[@helenmcsharry6052]

Brilliant and haunting❤

[@glynndonovan6951]

Amazing voice what a legend R.I.P ronnie drew

[@glennpayne704]

Great Aussie song about our land...Eric Bogle does a brilliant rendition... sung in Australia...I believe he wrote this song...

[@iamfantastic.iamgreat3649]

Thank you Australia! Lots of love from Ireland!

[@iamfantastic.iamgreat3649]

Great tune

[@liamhancock2248]

Wrote the song after meeting an old cocky in the Bushranger Hotel, Collector according to rumour

[@marcphelan9883]

Eric bogel a Scots man writing a song about Australia sung by the best in the business the Irish

[@joespencer1257]

Never knew

[@tonyflanagan4259]

That was when the late late was worth watching super show that night

[@rosemaryholland6595]

☘💚🇮🇪R.I.P. You are missed,but will never be forgotten. 🇮🇪💚☘

[@SallyMawdsley-ex2sl]

❤❤❤🎉🎉,,our wonderfull Ronnie drew,,,some song,, god bless u,, xxxxxxxxx,,,,bbbo

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

This song has been making me tear up for years; beautiful. (and whenever I wonder what god would look like, I get two guys: Morgan Freeman or Ronnie Drew....this man has SO much gravitas and natural dignity)

[@sarahmilner8483]

Sorry to Burst your bubble but Morgan Freeman is an absolute creep. Stick with Ronnie a true gent

[@williamjackson5942]

@@sarahmilner8483 Baloney!

[@sarahmilner8483]

@@williamjackson5942 learn to spell and you know shit you moron.

[@mikeyates7931]

Ronnie does bear a striking resemblance to , Michaelangelo' s depiction of , GOD

[@michaelgriff3984]

Me too laddie

[@TomJones-un3fh]

Met Eric Bogle Twice What a songwriter

[@gary1477]

Yesterday, I was drinking at the Bushranger Pub in Collector, NSW. Eric Bogle drank with an old cockie there in the early 70s. An old cockie told Eric his life story. Eric wrote this song after this conversation.

[@alpyne21]

what a voice

[@glennpayne704]

Song about the harsh Aussie environment.Written by Eric Bogle...

[@keire2]

Dublin I miss you 🇮🇪, am coming home as soon as I can 🇮🇪

[@sarahmilner8483]

Agh.. That old nugget.. A tale as old as time from every ex pat ever.

[@irishfield1]

He was Ireland and will ever be this so beautiful ever adore Ronnie thank you all so much

[@bluegtturbo]

Such a beautiful sad song And true.... Eric Bogle wrote it after meeting the old man in an Australian pub

[@010010100100101001]

Look I'm a youngster from Northern Europe and though I understand the English language the Burma Railway part hit way harder after reading this

[@gary1477]

Australia sent the 8th Division of the Australian Army to fortify Malaya and Singapore during WW2. The Japanese Army captured them. About a third of the soldiers died from starvation and Japanese brutality. Most died building a railway from Thailand to Burma (Myanmar). About 50,000 Europeans (Dutch, British and Australians) and 200,000 Asians died building this now abandoned railway.

[@jimhealy8790]

The Japanese great ideal culture, saw the results of their barbarism towards POWs in my own family circle, savages all, it’s their culture.

[@anthonymctigue9038]

NEVER B ANOTHER SADLEY MISSED ETERNAL REST

[@patton1977]

Please take me back to these days please! ❤

[@user-cp6rp9zv9m]

Ireland's best story teller, ever...simply epic !!!

[@johnking4519]

RIP Ronnie and the great AWSOM Dubliners.

[@glenkeddy1601]

All the legends gone

[@brianmcd9492]

Amazing singing by Ronnie'o his singing paints a picture like no other🙂

[@xine9997]

Beautifully pax, sage, evocative

[@patricksavage551]

Still love Ronnie's voice

[@adammoore442]

Ronnie was and is one of the best singers in Ireland

[@cahillgreg]

People praise Luke & of course - but I always preferred Ronnie - 2 men that could really put their stamp on a song

[@pegknife]

This is THE version 😉

[@rocker6883]

God bless him

[@user-nv8ed9si3y]

Unreal

[@richardsullivan1022]

God bless them all R.l.P ☘️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🌹❤️🕊️🕊️🕊️😭👍

[@richardgeorge8612]

brilliant

[@niallmurray1411]

That is some song

[@richardsullivan1022]

God bless the Daddy 🕊️🕊️🕊️☘️☘️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

[@michaelheraghty309]

Ronnie drew up there with DYLAN CHRISTY MOORE & LIAM CLANCY - THROUGH IN MICK JAGGER .IMAGINE THAT LOT ON STAGE TOGETHER.

[@plasticbucket]

I would not rate any of the above. B

[@user-iz7xd1dn5v]

קול נדיר ביופיו .אין צורך ברמקול !

[@PaulHunter-qh5dc]

Proud to be a Wicklow man 🇮🇪☘️💚

[@colauty2598]

A treasure !

[@justinfrancis8009]

Long live Ronnie...

[@MrMassivefavour]

Would love to of heard a bridge in this lovely song.

[@bobrooney874]

Brilliant

[@jasonjennings1309]

❤

[@gunterweis3278]

Ronnie Drew eine Legende!☘☘🌈

[@charlestaylor6085]

The price payable for our freedom. Paid in death and blood. The oath doesn't expire

[@williamkelly9859]

Only one Ronnie drew.

[@Mick-Kahl80]

Ronnie 💖💔💖💯

[@ritadonnelly8820]

my song at my funeral ❤

[@clivemilson2372]

Ronnie was unique. Sadly missed.

[@warwickmjs]

Fucking hell!!!

[@percevalcarlsson5811]

Anyone know what "I'm easy" means I've figured it's like... "I'm content" or "I'm at peace" but not sure

[@thomasotoole1653]

At peace

[@xine9997]

I've transcended it all, attained peace.

[@adammoore3605]

Ronnie drewmatserclass

[@derekgreene9417]

Legend

[@patkinsella8164]

❤❤❤

[@Will-bz3yt]

The best sing..so true so sad so poignant im English born but irish through to me boots mam n dan grandads bk to 10th century

[@nellypringle2875]

The image of a guy who’s lost everyone he loved, growing old and toiling on alone, is unbearably sad. I’d say only singers like Ronnie, Luke (and probably Bob Dylan) could tell a tale like that without losing it to sentimentality. It’s certainly sad but you can come away admiring the fortitude of the narrator, rather than simply pitying him. And that’s one of the reasons why Ronnie Drew is one of the greats, folks. 🙂✌️

[@pauldaly-dc7bj]

What a so beautiful Hu Hu💯🫀🫵🧑‍🦱🐕‍🦺🥂🍻

[@thomashays68gmail]

Testify brother! Testify!

[@pad5152]

Ronnie has a wonderful crusty old Dublin accent that you dont hear no more?

[@ritadonnelly8820]

that's the song I want to play at my funeral ❤❤

[@clive3940]

Flashlyrics Now I'm Easy Lyrics For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty This country's dust and mud Have seen my tears and blood But it's nearly over now And now I'm easy I married a fine girl when I was twenty She died in giving birth When she was thirty No flying doctor then Just a gentle old black gen. But it's nearly over now And now I'm easy She left me with two sons and a daughter And a bone dry farm Whose soil cried out for water Though my care was rough and ready They grew up fine and steady But it's nearly over now And now I'm easy My daughter married young And went her own way My sons lie buried By the Burma railway So on this land I've made me home I've carried on alone But it's nearly over now And now I'm easy Oh, city folks, these days despise the cocky Saying with subsidies and dole We've had it easy But there's no drought or starving stock On the sewered suburban block But it's nearly over now And now I'm easy For nearly sixty years I've been a cocky Of droughts and fires and floods I've lived through plenty This country's dust and mud Have seen my tears and blood But it's nearly over now And now I'm easy But it's nearly over now And now I'm easy Cocky: is a slang word for farmer: Australian origin. Check source Old Black gen: 'gen' I don't know meaning. Misspelling of 'glen' or is it slang for medicine or whiskey, unknown. Edit 16th April 2023 Ronnie Drew Lyrics Top Ronnie Drew Lyrics Danny FarrellDonegal DannyEasy and SlowNow I'm EasySeven Drunken NightsThe Ballad of St. Anne's ReelThe Band Played Waltzing MatildaThe Irish RoverThe Lowlands of HollandThe Oul Triangle RONNIE DREW NOW I'M EASY LYRICS "Now I'm Easy" is a song by Ronnie Drew.

[@superbsherbetreverb3409]

Hilarious that some letters in the word "cocky" have been replaced by asterisks! 😂It's an Australian slang word for farmer.

[@andrewmellon5072]

Thank you for printing lyrics it makes the song much more enjoyable.

[@user-pn8qq5fs2j]

Old Black "Gen" is actually Old Black Gin meaning Old Aboriginal Woman

[@gerrymcardle9319]

Old black gin is referring to an old Aboriginal Lady who knew and understood human life.

[@James9187]

Mr Bogle may have sung and wrote these lyrics but he doesn't sing it like Ronnie .. Great voice ..

[@dominicjackson3769]

Agree 100% X Dominic Agree

[@jamesoconnor9386]

The song's wonderful, Ronnie Drew's great, as usual, but that band... seriously, keyboards!? No, no, Ronnie, you shouldn't have let them do that to you, or to the song. If he had done this with the Dubliners, it would have been superb.

[@CRyan71]

He is playing G C D and is it a G7?

[@basedbob277]

Pecker dunne sings the best version

[@user-xw6fb5rn2o]

Charles Phillip ABDilla Beashel

[@Tipperary757]

Sadly, band is so loud, drowning out singer.

[@xine9997]

More like a unity. It's easy enough to hear him and those dulcet instruments really capture the sentiments without being sentimental

[@jimmclean7938]

I just typed in his name and heard this brilliant song for the first time...awesome

[@patkinsella8164]

❤