A Composer’s Sketchbook | The 1970s Track 70 | Carefree?

This is just a light-hearted fragment of a melody that popped in my head. I jotted it down in this recording and at the end, just let the last chord hang. Not quite sure what it meant, but it felt odd, like happiness sustained too long until it sours and becomes a bit uncomfortable. There is a litany in the Disney cartoon TV series, “Duck Tales” that sums it up nicely: “We’re happy, we’re happy, we’re very very happy; you cannot run from happy; there’s no escape from happy….”