Free and easy
An intimate acoustic folk singer songwriter ballad, Tempo: around 90 BPM, key: F Major, with cold, monotone female voice with half-spoken storytelling vocal over fingerpicked guitar, upright bass, and brushed drums, captured like a small-room Rolling Thunder Revue outtake; the band plays loosely and quietly so the long poetic lines can breathe, with gentle lifts in the choruses and a restrained, fading Outro that leaves the feeling of one fragile, luminous day pulled out of a lifetime of bruised nights, Sparse, rustic, small-combo trio vibe of only vintage hollowbody jazz guitar, slap bass, brushed snare, guitar plays fingerpicked arpeggios mixed with a four-on-the-floor rhythm strum - NO other instruments - Mood: wistful, pastoral, and tender, like an old love confession carried by the evening light
Free and easy
An intimate acoustic folk singer songwriter ballad, Tempo: around 90 BPM, key: F Major, with cold, monotone female voice with half-spoken storytelling vocal over fingerpicked guitar, upright bass, and brushed drums, captured like a small-room Rolling Thunder Revue outtake; the band plays loosely and quietly so the long poetic lines can breathe, with gentle lifts in the choruses and a restrained, fading Outro that leaves the feeling of one fragile, luminous day pulled out of a lifetime of bruised nights, Sparse, rustic, small-combo trio vibe of only vintage hollowbody jazz guitar, slap bass, brushed snare, guitar plays fingerpicked arpeggios mixed with a four-on-the-floor rhythm strum - NO other instruments - Mood: wistful, pastoral, and tender, like an old love confession carried by the evening light
Lyrics
Verse 1
I'm the lass that's free and easy
Wheresoe'er I chance to be.
And I'll do my best to please ye.
If you will but list to me—
Chorus
So let the world jog along as it will,
I'll be free and easy still;
Free and easy, free and easy,
I'll be free and easy still.
Verse 2
Borne there are who meet their troubles.
Others drown their cares in drink;
Half our trials are but bubbles.
Fretting forges many a link.
Chorus
So let the world jog along as it will,
I'll be free and easy still;
Free and easy, free and easy,
I'll be free and easy still.
Verse 3
I envy neither great nor wealthy,
Poverty I ne'er despise.
Let me be contented, healthy,
And the boon I'll dearly prize.
Chorus
So let the world jog along as it will,
I'll be free and easy still;
Free and easy, free and easy,
I'll be free and easy still.
Verse 4
The great have cares I little know of,
All that glitters is not gold.
Merit's seldom made a show of.
And true worth is rarely bold.
Chorus
So let the world jog along as it will,
I'll be free and easy still;
Free and easy, free and easy,
I'll be free and easy still.
Verse 5
Why then waste our days in fretting?
The longest lane must have an end.
The wealth that costs such toil in getting.
Takes but little time to spend.
Chorus
So let the world jog along as it will,
I'll be free and easy still;
Free and easy, free and easy,
I'll be free and easy still.
Verse 6
I care for all, yet care for no man.
Those who mean well need not fear,
I like a woman, and love a man.
What else makes this life so dear!
Chorus
So let the world jog along as it will,
I'll be free and easy still;
Free and easy, free and easy,
I'll be free and easy still.