Easy Like Sunday Morning Track - The Weight by The Band

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.