Having a song named after you is always a pleasure, but, ‘Me and Bobby McGee’ is no ordinary song and is a true highlight in Janis’ Joplin’s career that remarkably wouldn’t have existed without Eden. A A A A Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away A A7 D D Lookin for the home and I hope shell find. E7 E7 E7 E7 Standin right beside me, Lord, through everything Id done, E7 E7 A A Every night she kept me from the cold. To be holding Bobby's body next to mine Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose Nothing, and that's all that Bobby left me, yeah And feeling good was easy Lord, when he sang the blues Hey, feeling good was good enough for me, hmm hmm Good enough for me and my Bobby McGee La la la, la la la la, la la la, la la la la La la la la la. This accolade was something she never expected, but, she has remained forever grateful about. A A A A From the coal mines of Kentuckyto the California sun A A E7 E7 Bobby shared the secrets of my soul. When Eden heard the song on the radio, she couldn’t quite believe it, noting: “Then I started hearing it on the radio and I would just go crazy every time I heard that song.”Įden has been memorialised forever in history on this track. Kristofferson initially gave the song to Roger Miller who had a hit with the track in 1969, before releasing his version on his debut album Kristofferson, which came out in 1970. But I just thought it was the most fantastic song I had ever heard.” Kris said he couldn’t sing very good, but he’ll try. “Fred came in and said, ‘I want you to meet the real Bobby McKee and here’s Kris Kristofferson to sing your song for you,'” Eden recalled to the Star Tribune in 2015. At the time of the song being penned, she was a 29-year-old working as Bryant’s secretary and nicknamed Bobbie. I had it finished by the time I got to Nashville.” I took an old experience with another girl in another country. It was raining and the windshield wipers were going. “One day I was driving between Morgan City and New Orleans. But it must have stuck in the back of my head. Fred Foster, the owner, called me and said, ‘I’ve got a title for you: ‘Me and Bobbie McKee,’ and I thought he said ‘McGee.’ I thought there was no way I could ever write that, and it took me months hiding from him, because I can’t write on assignment. In Twang – The Ultimate Book of Country Music Quotations, Kristofferson recalled: “I had just gone to work for Combine Music. Little did he know how the song would change the course of his career. She was the secretary of a friend and colleague of Fred Foster’s, Boudleaux Bryant and Foster then suggested to Kristofferson that he write a song called ‘Me and Bobbie McKee’, which he then did. The inspiration for the track is Barbara McKee, known as Bobbie. Due to ‘Bobby’ being a gender-neutral term, it fits seamlessly into Joplin’s wheelhouse, and people didn’t question the real Bobby McGee’s identity.
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