![]() Recordings and notable performances "Me and Bobby McGee" The song ends with the narrator regretting leaving Bobby, as he would "trade all of my tomorrows for one single yesterday". She parts ways with the narrator who continues travelling. However, Bobby gets tired of life on the road and decides to settle down "up near Salinas". The couple eventually travels to California, growing more intimate with each other and helping each other through the hardships of life. They sing with the driver while travelling through the American south. The narrator speaks of travelling as vagrants, and hitching a ride on a diesel truck. The song is essentially a road story about two drifters, the narrator and his girlfriend Bobby McGee (boyfriend in Joplin's version). How does that grab you?" (Laughs) I said, "Uh, I'll try to write it, but I've never written a song on assignment." So it took me a while to think about. Then Fred says, "The hook is that Bobby McKee is a she. Bobby McKee was the secretary of Boudleaux Bryant, who was in the same building with Fred. It's 'Me and Bobby McKee'." I thought he said "McGee". He called one night and said, "I've got a song title for you. In a conversation with director Monte Hellman called "Somewhere Near Salinas" (available in the supplements to the Criterion Collection DVD release of Two-Lane Blacktop, a film in which Kristofferson's version is used on the soundtrack), Kristofferson stated that the film La Strada was an inspiration for the song and remarked on the irony of how a song inspired by a classic road movie should come to be used in another. Kristofferson stated he did not write this song for her, but the song is associated with her, especially in the line "Somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away." Joplin, who was allegedly a lover (but also a good friend and mentor) of Kristofferson's from the beginning of her career to her death, changed the sex and a few of the lyrics in her cover. In the original version of the song, Bobby is a woman. 4 Chart positions (Roger Miller version).
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