"Easy Street" is a jazz standard and popular song with lyrics and music written by Alan Rankin Jones in 1940.
[1][2][3][4] It was first recorded by 'Jimmy Lunceford and his Orchestra.'
[1] The term 'easy street' originated in the late 1800s and is slang for "a state in which everything is going well and one is comfortable.” It's usually meant momentarily.
[2] Easy Street is in thirty-two bar form[4][5] and includes a melody that moves the title line to different pitches whenever it recurs in a phrase.
[4][1] The song is usually played with a slow, slightly swinging melody.