I think it's because I didn't really like it that much until I heard Janis' version. Randy from Houghton Lake, MiI tend to not really pay close attention to the lyrics of songs and after listening to it hundreds of times over the last 40 some years, I never realized that Bobby was a girl.George from Vancouver, CanadaI just read the full lyrics, & I see nothing in this to suggest Bobby was a he-she.Gur Tirosh from IsraelHi George, I came across this article which explains how the song came to be and whether it is a he or a she.I have heard Kris state that Janis had “improved” lyrics on other occasions. Thomas Wenger from Fort Worth, TexasListening to the version of Bobby McGee on Janis’ Pearl recording, I hear the line “One day up near Salinas” clearly changed by Janis to a great alternative that I think Kris would appreciate,.Thomas Wenger from Fort Worth, TexasI really want to get an opinion on this variation in these lyrics.Please!! Someone confirm that this word is actually what Janis sings, instead of “Up near Salinas”. Thomas Wenger from Fort Worth, Texas I am so disappointed that not one of the hundreds that read these comments wants to investigate my assertion that Janis tweaked the poetry of Kris’ version and improved it with the uncommon, but perfect word, “misalliance”.But I guess we should ask Kris Kristofferson since he wrote the song. Don from Dayton, OhYes, there is a couple different meanings but after she says "I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana." The next line is "I was playing soft while Bobby sang the blues." So that doesn't sound like she's talking about a hypodermic needle.Kathy from North CarolinaI will always love Janis Joplin!!!."I went, 'With them windshield wipers slapping time and Bobby clapping hands we finally sang up every song the driver knew.' And that was it." The song's final defining image came to Kristofferson as he was driving in heavy rain to the airport for the flight home. And that was where 'Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose' came from, because he was free from her, and I guess he would have traded all his tomorrows for another day with her." That was 'Somewhere near Salinas, I let her slip away.' Later in the film he (Quinn) hears a woman hanging out her clothes, singing the melody she (Masina) used to play on the trombone, and she told him, 'Oh, she died.' So he goes out, gets drunk, gets into a fight in a bar and ends up on the beach, howling at the stars. At one point, like he did, he drove off and left her there. I had the rhythm of a Mickey Newbury song going in the back of my mind, 'Why You Been Gone So Long,' and I developed this story of these guys who went around the country kind of like Anthony Quinn and Giuletta Masina in (Fellini's) La Strada. "I hid from Fred for a while but I was trying to write that song all the time I was flying around Baton Rouge and New Orleans. He said that he had a song title for the songwriter - "Me And Bobby McKee." Kristofferson recalled in Mojo magazine March 2008 that his label boss suggested: "'You could make this thing about them traveling around, the hook is that he turns out to be a she.'" The founder of Kristofferson's record label, Fred Foster, rang him just as the struggling musician was about to leave Nashville for his helicopter pilot sideline job.
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