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Easy to Slip

[Lowell George, Fred Martin]

Sandy covered the Little Feat song Easy to Slip during the Rendezvous sessions in June 1976. Jerry Donahue on guitar, Alan Skidmore on sax and presumably Steve Winwood on organ appear on this track, which has a sound reminiscent of For Nobody to Hear. This track was made available on the cassette The Attic Tracks Vol. 1, the CD The Attic Tracks, in 2004 on the 5CD Fledg’ling Sandy Denny anthology A Boxful of Treasures, and in 2005 as bonus track of the CD reissue of Rendezvous.

Julie Covington recorded Easy to Slip as the B-side of her 1977 single Only Women Bleed. Both tracks were included in 2000 on her CD Julie Covington …Plus. This album also contains a version of Sandy’s By the Time It Gets Dark.

Lyrics

Sandy Denny sings Easy to Slip

It’s so easy to slip,
It’s so easy to fall,
Let your memory drift
And do nothin’ at all.
All the love that you missed,
All the people that you can’t recall,
Do they really exist at all?

My whole world seems so cold today,
All the magics’s gone away.
And our time together melts away
Like the sad melody I play.

I don’t want to drift forever
In the shadows of your leaving me.
I’ll light another cigarette
And try to remember to forget.

(Repeat first verse)