FREE & EASY*
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Text and Music by James Sundquist and Wendell Burton
©1977 ⓟCOOGA MOOGA MUSIC, LAMB & LION RECORDS
Now ©2014 Eagle Masterworks Productions & Crosswalk Publishing (Split)
Wendell was one of my best friends in LA. We both were artists signed to Lamb & Lion Records, attended the Vineyard at that time and were both in the Hollywood Free Theater whose ministry involved going into prisons to minister to the inmates. Wendell had written a song with Keith Green, who also went out to minister to prisoners with us. So we decided we should write one together. Wendell recorded a slower produced version of this song on one of his albums. I recorded a faster version in my In Concert release.
SUNNY DAYS DOGS ARE BARKING
KIDS ON SKATEBOARDS WHIZZING BY
WALKING DOWN THE BOULEVARD
AND I FEEL LIKE LAUGHING AND I DON'T KNOW WHY
THE PAPER ON THE NEWSSTAND SAYS NO RAIN, NO CLOUDS
SO I THINK I'LL TAKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
AND SING OUT LOUD
CHORUS:
THANKIN' YOU LORD, FOR MAKIN' TODAY
THIS WONDERFUL FEELING IN MY HEART JUST BLOWS ME AWAY
JUST BLOWS ME AWAY, JUST BLOWS ME AWAY, etc.
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Text and Music by James Sundquist and Wendell Burton
©1977 ⓟCOOGA MOOGA MUSIC, LAMB & LION RECORDS
Now ©2014 Eagle Masterworks Productions & Crosswalk Publishing (Split)
Wendell was one of my best friends in LA. We both were artists signed to Lamb & Lion Records, attended the Vineyard at that time and were both in the Hollywood Free Theater whose ministry involved going into prisons to minister to the inmates. Wendell had written a song with Keith Green, who also went out to minister to prisoners with us. So we decided we should write one together. Wendell recorded a slower produced version of this song on one of his albums. I recorded a faster version in my In Concert release.
SUNNY DAYS DOGS ARE BARKING
KIDS ON SKATEBOARDS WHIZZING BY
WALKING DOWN THE BOULEVARD
AND I FEEL LIKE LAUGHING AND I DON'T KNOW WHY
THE PAPER ON THE NEWSSTAND SAYS NO RAIN, NO CLOUDS
SO I THINK I'LL TAKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
AND SING OUT LOUD
CHORUS:
THANKIN' YOU LORD, FOR MAKIN' TODAY
THIS WONDERFUL FEELING IN MY HEART JUST BLOWS ME AWAY
JUST BLOWS ME AWAY, JUST BLOWS ME AWAY, etc.
*Free and Easy was also released on one of Wendell Burton's Lamb and Lion Records albums. In fact, he released it before I did. His recorded version is slower than mine. But he once told me he changed it to be fast like my tempo in concert.