Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Carefree Highway\" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot and was second single release from his 1974 album, Sundown. The song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at #1 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1974.The song's name comes from the name of Arizona State Route 74 north of Phoenix: Lightfoot - \"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.\" The song employs \"Carefree Highway\" as a metaphor for the state of mind where the singer seeks escape from his ruminations over a long ago failed affair with a woman named Ann. 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.\""@en }
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- Carefree_Highway_(song) abstract "\"Carefree Highway\" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot and was second single release from his 1974 album, Sundown. The song peaked at #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at #1 on the Easy Listening chart in October 1974.The song's name comes from the name of Arizona State Route 74 north of Phoenix: Lightfoot - \"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.\" The song employs \"Carefree Highway\" as a metaphor for the state of mind where the singer seeks escape from his ruminations over a long ago failed affair with a woman named Ann. 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.\"".