Simple

13 comments:

Sylvia said...

and be a simple kind of man,
be something you love and understand

Lynyrd Skynyrd

Deborah in IL said...

I am a simple man
So I sing a simple song

Graham Nash

Anonymous said...

Tis a gift to be simple
Tis a gift to be free
Tis a gift to come down where you want to be

("Simple Gifts", a Shaker song; notably used by Aaron Copland in his 1944 masterpiece, "Appalachian Spring")

Sandra Dodd said...

Simple Simon met a pieman
Going to the fair
Who else did Simple Simon meet
A railroad engineer

(a song from the Mickey Mouse Club show in the 50's; I have it on a a record album)

Anonymous said...

What do the simple folk do
To help them escape when they're blue?
They sit around and wonder
What royal people do
And that's what simple folk do.

(Lerner/Loewe, from "Camelot")

Sandra Dodd said...

Ooooh, that Camelot play is a good one.

Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing, sing a song

Joe Raposo, for Sesame Street, in the days when that was one of the best shows ever.

Sarah said...

Well a simple kind of life never did me no harm

John Denver
"Country Boy"

Anonymous said...

What's hard is simple
What's natural comes hard
Maybe you could show me
How to let go
Lower my guard
Learn to be free
Maybe if you whistle
Whistle for me

(Stephen Sondheim, "Anyone Can Whistle")

Sally said...

Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worry and your strife

from Disney's "The Jungle Book"

Anonymous said...

Won't you play a simple melody
Like my mother sang to me?
One with a good old fashioned harmony.
Play some simple melody

(Irving Berlin)

Katie said...

Simply the best, better than all the rest!

I'm not sure who sings that? Just a commercial I think?

Amy said...

I thought we'd be simple together.
I thought we'd be happy together.
Thought we'd be limitless together.
I thought we'd be precious together, butut I was sadly mistaken.

- Alanis Morissette

Gunwaldt said...

It was then he felt alone & wished that he'd gone straight
And watched out for a simple twist of fate

Bob Dylan
"Simple Twist of Fate"