![]() That year, she and Kristofferson had a brief fling. Joplin was still recording her “Pearl” album when she died of a heroin overdose on Oct. Hey, feelin' good was good enough for me, mm-hmm Nothin', that's all that Bobby left me, yeahīut, feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues He's lookin' for that home, and I hope he finds itīut, I'd trade all of my tomorrows, for a single yesterday One day up near Salinas, Lord, I let him slip away Through all kinds of weather, through everything we done There Bobby shared the secrets of my soul You know, feelin' good was good enough for meįrom the Kentucky coal mine to the California sun Nothin', don't mean nothin' hon' if it ain't free, no noĪnd, feelin' good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues Windshield wipers slappin' time, I was holdin' Bobby's hand in mineįreedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose I was playin' soft while Bobby sang the blues, yeah I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna And so the song goes.īusted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a trainĪnd I's feelin' near as faded as my jeansīobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained That’s where the line ‘Freedom’s just another name for nothing left to lose’ came from. He was free when he left the girl, but it destroyed him. To me, that was the feeling at the end of ‘Bobby McGee.’ The two-edged sword that freedom is. He’s drunk and ends up howling at the stars on the beach. That night, Quinn goes to a bar and gets in a fight. He asks, ‘Where did you hear that song?’ And she tells him it was this little girl who had showed up in town and nobody knew where she was from, and later she died. ![]() Later in the film, he sees this woman hanging out the wash and singing the melody that the girl used to play on the trombone. He got to the point where he couldn’t put up with her anymore and left her by the side of the road while she was sleeping. “For some reason, I thought of La Strada, this Fellini film, and a scene where Anthony Quinn is going around on this motorcycle and Giulietta Masina is the feeble-minded girl with him, playing the trombone. 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. ![]() It’s “Me and Bobby McKee.”’ I thought he said ‘McGee.’ Bobby McKee was the secretary of Boudleaux Bryant, who was in the same building with Fred. Kris Kristofferson shares, "Fred called one night and said, ‘I’ve got a song title for you. The title came from producer and Monument Records founder Fred Foster. When Kris Kristofferson was given the open ended title for a song, he roosted on it to see where it would take him.
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