He wheeled his motorcycle off so he wouldn’t wake her up.Īnd that was the feeling I wanted to get out of “Bobby McGee”: Freedom’s just another word for nothing. It was like a double-edge sword of freedom. He goes out on the beach and ends up howling at the stars. Was this little girl who came into the village, and nobody knew where she cameįrom, and she died.” And later you see Anthony Quinn out there in this tavern, And this woman, who’s hanging up laundry, is singing it or whistling it.Īnd he goes up and asks her where she learned that song. Photo by Paul Zollo/American Songwriter.Īnd at the end of the film he hears this song she used to She’s kind of half-witted, and he’s getting tired of taking care of her. He’s traveling around with Giuletta Masina in this little funky circus thing they had.
LYRICS ME AND BOBBY MCGEE ROGER MILLER MOVIE
I though of the movie La Strada with Anthony Quinn. I was thinking of it as two people traveling around. He told me Bobby McGee is a she! And I thought, “Oh God, I’ve got to start over.” But we talked it over, what could happen. It just blew Fred away.īut there was one problem. So we stayed up all night making the demo of it.
Found Billy Swan back at Columbine Music, he was the only guy who was still there when I got back to Nashville. I was driving to the airport in New Orleans, and the windshield wipers were going into the line about “the windshield wipers slapping time and Bobbie clapping hands…” And it finished the song for me.Īnd I went back. And I can remember when the last line came to me. So I had to hide for a couple months.īut then the idea just started growing in my head. It gives me the worst case of writer’s block that I’d ever seen. I thought he said “McGee.” And he told me to go write the song. And Boudleaux’s secretary was named Bobbie McKee. Fred was the guy who owned Monument Records and Columbine, which I was writing for at the time. He called up one time when I was about to go back down to the gulf for another week of flying and he said, “I got a song tile for you: “Me and Bobby McGee.”īoudleaux Bryant, the songwriter, had an office in Fred’s building.
But it was an idea that Fred Foster had given to me.
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