CAREFREE HIGHWAY - GORDON LIGHTFOOT

CAREFREE HIGHWAY folk roots country rock song by GORDON LIGHTFOOT @FreedomBirdMusicVideos [Videography courtesy of RAUNAQ SACHDEV]

"Carefree Highway" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot & was the second single release from his 1974 album, Sundown. It peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 & spent one week at No. 1 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1974.

"Carefree Highway"
Single by Gordon Lightfoot from the album Sundown
B-side"Seven Island Suite"
Released: August 1974
Genre: Folk, Country, Rock
Length: 3:45
Label: Reprise
Songwriter: Gordon Lightfoot
Producer: Lenny Waronker

Gordon Lightfoot singles chronology includes:
"Sundown" (1974)
"Carefree Highway" (1974)
"Rainy Day People" (1975)

The "Carefree Highway" title comes from a section of Arizona State Route 74 in north Phoenix U.S.A. Gordon Lightfoot said, "I thought it would make a good title for a song. I wrote it down, put it in my suitcase and it stayed there for eight months."

"Carefree Highway" is a metaphor for the state of mind where the singer seeks escape from his thinking about a failed relationship with a woman named Ann.

Gordon Lightfoot has stated that Ann actually was the name of a woman Lightfoot romanced when he was age 22: "It [was] one of those situations where you meet that one woman who knocks you out and then leaves you standing there and says she's on her way."

CAREFREE HIGHWAY LYRICS

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've 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've got to see you my old flame
Carefree highway
You've 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've seen the 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've got to see you my old flame
Carefree highway
You've seen better days
The morning after blues
From my head down to my shoes
Carefree highway
Let me slip away, slip away on you

Songwriter: Gordon Lightfoot

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