Recommend some songs with the word "Easy" in the lyrics

Cafe Society
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I need to come up with a list of songs, mainly old ones, that have any section that features the word “easy” for a radio spot. Either the title, or anywhere in the song where it describes a thing or action being easy to do. Nothing off-color or even remotely offensive to anyone is the key. No current music, either, it’s for an older audience.

Off the top of my head, I’ve got:

Linda Ronstadt - It’s So Easy
Commodores - Easy
Eagles - Take It Easy
Len Barry - 1-2-3 (“it’s so easy, like taking candy from a baby…”)
Bobby Sherman - Easy Come, Easy Go
Uriah Heep - Easy Livin’

Anyone have more suggestions? Thanks!

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Peaceful Easy Feeling- The Eagles

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Thank you so much for putting Linda Ronstadt in my head. Once I get going on it’s so easy…it can last for DAYS!!!

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Just wanted to tell you the original version of this song is by it’s writer, Buddy Holly.

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I knew that. We won’t be using his version, though.

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Nina Simone – Summertime (…and the livin’ is easy)
Cole Porter – Easy to Love
Irving Berlin – Easy to Dance With
Kermit the Frog – It’s Not Easy Bein Green

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Sinatra (and others like Jackie & Roy) Nice and Easy

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From the movie Nashville: “I’m Easy” by Keith Carradine

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Foghat – “Slow Ride” (‘take it easy …’)

Jefferson Starship – “Miracles” ('Then there’s really nothing that we can’t do / If we wanted to, baby / We could exist on the stars / It’d be so easy)

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Also, Three Dog Night’s “Easy to Be Hard”.

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“Easy Lover” - Phil Collins and some other guy

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“Easy Lovin’ Bill,” recorded by Johnny Winter back when he looked like this (!)
http://www.musictap.net/Graphics/JPGsGifs/MiniCDCovers/JohnnyWinterEssentials.jpg

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“Ballad of the Easy Rider” – The Byrds
“Easy Does It” – Al Kooper
“Easy Street” – various
“Pure and Easy” – The Who
“Easy Wind” – Grateful Dead

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“Easy” – Timbuk 3. A good song.

“Don’t Worry About the Government” – Talking Heads
“My building has every convenience/It’s gonna make life easy for me/It’s gonna be easy to get things done/I will relax, along with my loved ones…”

Probably too adult for you to use, but there’s The Beatles’ “Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except for Me and My Monkey” (“Take it easy, take it easy/Everybody’s got something to hide…”)

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“Easy” by Lionel Richie

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Easy mixup (heh). That one’s in the OP (Richie is on vocals for the Commodores on that track).

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“Come on come on come on come on
Come on is such a joy
Come on is such a joy
Come on take it easy
Come on take it easy
Take it easy take it easy
Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey!”

Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey, the Beatles

"Nothing you can make that can’t be made.
No one you can save that can’t be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time.
It’s easy.

All you need is love.
All you need is love.
All you need is love, love.
Love is all you need."

All You Need Is Love, the Beatles

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Oops.

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“Take Love Easy”, as performed by Ella Fitzgerald with Joe Pass on guitar.

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“Coke Babies” by Radiohead (1992 maybe?)… probably not what you’re looking for, but certainly contains the “Easy” requirement:

Easy living, easy hold
Easy TV, easy fold
Easy listening, easy love
Easy answers to easy questions
Easy tumble, easy doll
Easy rumble, easy fall
I get off on easy love
I get off on easy questions