Today's Easy Like Sunday Morning Track is The Weight by The Band. This is off the their 1968 debut album Music from Big Pink. This song is about a traveler who visits a southern town called Nazareth and meets different characters when trying to find a place to stay; The Devil, Carmen, Miss Mosses, Luke, and Crazy Chester. The band Nazareth got their name from this song.
When I first heard this song when I was little I thought the chorus said "Take a load of Fanny" and it always reminded me of my Aunt Fannie. Then for years I thought I was wrong and that it was actually Annie until I looked it up today. Turns out I was right to start with. There is a character named Anna Lee but there is also a character named Ms. Fanny who charged the traveler with the responsibility (The Weight or the load) to send her regards to the people in the town.
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