Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Washington, DC.Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headin' for the train Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained Took us all the way to New Orleans I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna I was blowin' sad while Bobby sang the blues With that windshield wiper slappin' time and Bobby clappin' hands We finally sang up every song that driver knew Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free Feelin' good was easy, Lord when Bobby sang the blues Buddy, that was good enough for me, good enough for me and Bobby McGee From the coal mines of Kentucky to the California sun Bobby shared the secrets of my soul Standin' right beside me, through everything I've done And every night he kept me from the cold Then somewhere near Salinas, I let him slip away Lookin' for the home I hope he'll find And I'll trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday Holdin' Bobby's body next to mine Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose And nothin' left is all he left for me Ah, feelin' good was easy, Lord when Bobby sang the blues Buddy, that was good enough for me, good enough for me and Bobby McGee Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee I let him slip away, lookin' for that home I hope he'll find Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee, good enough for me and my Bobby McGee Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee. Janis Joplin & Tom Jones Bring the House Down in an Unlikely Duet of “Raise Your Hand” (1969) Verse 1 Busted flat in baton rouge, waiting for a train Feeling nearly faded as my jeans Bobby flagged a diesel down, just before it rained Took us all the way to New Orleans I took my harpoon.
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Janis Joplin’s Last TV Performance & Interview: The Dick Cavett Show (1970) Watch Janis Joplin’s Final Interview Get Reborn as an Animated Cartoon “Joplin might’ve never hitchhiked across the country with anyone named Bobby McGee,” but she “did what great interpreters do.” She made the song “about Janis Joplin, because that’s what Janis Joplin made it.” “Instead, she just lets it rip, her phrasing immediate and instinctive,” howling at the stars like Anthony Quinn. Written as a country song, Joplin doesn’t quite sing it that way, and she “doesn’t really sing it as blues or psychedelic rock either,” writes Breihan. But Joplin “made it her own,” Kristofferson says, and it’s no empty cliché. (The Louisiana references come in because Kristofferson was working as a helicopter pilot in the Gulf at the time.)Ī long list of famous singers has covered the song, originally recorded by Roger Miller-just about anyone you might name in folk and country. The arms that open wide to hold me closer, D7 A the hands that run their fingers through my hair. Foster gave Kristofferson the title “Me and Bobby McKee,” Kristofferson misheard the last name, assumed it was a man, and wrote the famous lyrics, inspired not by Barbara but by Federico Fellini’s La Strada, in which Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel together on a motorcycle as a performing duo. D7 G D If you love me let it be, if you dont then set me free, A A7 G - D take the chains away that keep me loving y.ou. It was written, in 1969, about a woman, Barbara “Bobby” McKee, who worked as a secretary in songwriter Fred Foster’s building. Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train And I's feelin' near as faded as my jeans Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained It rode us all the way to New Orleans I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna I was playin' soft while Bobby sang the blues, yeah. The somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away, she was lookin for the love I hope shell find, Well Id. Watch: New Singing Lesson Videos Can Make Anyone A Great Singer. Many people have assumed Kristofferson wrote the song for Joplin, but that’s not the case: he didn’t know she was recording it at all. and every night she kept me from the cold. Just blew me away.” Above, you can hear a rare recording, possibly the first take, and possibly one of the early versions Kristofferson heard in the studio. He met the producer of Joplin’s last album, Pearl, in L.A., who told him to come to the studio “to play me her recording of ‘Bobby McGee.’ And it just blew me away. “You can’t think of that song without thinking of Janis,” says Kris Kristofferson of Janis Joplin’s raw, bittersweet, posthumously released “ Me and Bobby McGee.” Kristofferson, who wrote the song, only heard Joplin’s version after her death, when he returned to California after playing the Isle of Wight in 1970.
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