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Carefree Highway

Gordon Lightfoot

1975

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"Carefree Highway" is geschreven door Gordon Lightfoot en was de tweede single van zijn in 1974 verschenen album Sundown. Lightfoot kreeg het idee voor deze song toen hij een verkeersbord zag net ten noorden van Phoenix (Arizona). De Carefree Highway snijdt de I-17 en leidt naar Carefree (Arizona), een kleine gemeenschap ten noorden van Phoenix. In het magazine Crawdaddy van april 1975 legde hij uit: "Ik dacht dat het een goede titel voor een lied zou zijn, nadat ik het had geschreven, legde ik het in mijn koffer en daar bleef het 8 maanden liggen." De vrouw in het lied was Lightfoots vriendin toen hij 22 was. Haar naam was Ann.

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Wist je dat? Het typische Lightfootgeluid, zowel in de studio en op tournee, bestaat uit de indrukwekkende bariton die Lightfoot is en de op folk gebaseerde twaalfsnarige akoestische gitaar.
Titel A-kant

Carefree Highway

Lengte A-kant

3:45

Componist(en) A-kant

Gordon Lightfoot

Producer(s) A-kant

Lenny Waronker

Engineer(s) A-kant

Lee Herschberg

Titel B-kant

Seven Island Suite

Lengte B-kant

6:00

Componist(en) B-kant

Gordon Lightfoot

Producer(s) B-kant

Lenny Waronker

Engineer(s) B-kant

Lee Herschberg

Platenlabel

Reprise

Catalogusnr

REP 14 370

Hoogste positie US

10

Album

Sundown

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Carefree Highway

Picking up the pieces of my sweet shattered dream
I wonder how the old folks are tonight
Her name was Ann and I'll be damned if I recall her face
She left me not knowing what to do

Carefree highway, let me slip away on you
Carefree highway, you seen better days
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you

Turning back the pages to the times I love best
I wonder if she'll ever do the same
Now the thing that I call living is just being satisfied
With knowing I got no one left to blame

Carefree highway, I got to see you my old flame
Carefree highway, you seen better days
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you

Searching through the fragments of my dream shattered sleep
I wonder if the years have closed her mind
I guess it must be wanderlust or trying to get free
From the good old faithful feeling we once knew

Carefree highway, let me slip away on you
Carefree highway, you seen better days
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you
Let me slip away on you
Carefree highway, I got to see you my old flame
Carefree highway, you seen better days
The morning after blues from my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway, let me slip away, slip away on you

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