Early country music star Anita Carter came from a big family of music. Her career began very early with her mother Maybelle Carter, forming the quartet Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters. Her sister June married Johnny Cash, who revamped Anita Carter’s song “Love’s Ring of Fire,” turning it into his world famous hit “Ring of Fire.”
Anita Carter and JohnnyCash were a large part of each other’s personal life and career. Watch Anita Carter perform “Loving Him Was Easier” live on The Johnny Cash Show below.
“Loving Him Was Easier” Lyrics
I have seen the morning burning golden on the mountain in the skies
Aching with the feeling of the freedom of an eagle when she flies
Turning on the world, the way she smiled upon my soul as I lay dying
Healing as the colors in the sunshine and the shadows of her eyes
Loving her was easier than anything I’ll ever do again
Coming close together
With a feeling that I’d never known before in my time
She ain’t ashamed to be a woman or afraid to be a friend
I don’t know the answer to the easy way she opened every door in my mind
But dreaming was as easy as believing it was never gonna end
Loving her was easier than anything I’ll ever do again
Waking in the morning to the feeling of her fingers on my skin
Wiping out the traces of the people and the places that I”ve been
Teaching me that yesterday was something that I never thought of trying
Talking of tomorrow and the money, love and time we had to spend
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