Later that year, his version of the song appeared in Monte Hellman's psychedelic road movie Two-Lane Blacktop. Kris Kristofferson recorded his own version of the song on his debut album Kristofferson in 1970. The song was included on the 1970 Statler Brothers album Bed of Rose's, but was not released as a single.
On the Canadian charts, Gordon Lightfoot's version (recorded in November 1969) hit No. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition recorded the song in May/June 1969, and released it on their album Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town in 1969. Roger Miller was the first artist to record the song (in May 1969), and it appeared at No. However, in the original Roger Miller version, it is clear that, just as with the Monuments Records secretary, Bobby / Bobbie was female. Due to the singer's name never being mentioned and the name "Bobby" being gender-neutral (especially in America), the song has been recorded by both male and female singers with only minor differences in the lyrical content. They visit California and then part ways, with the song's narrator expressing sadness afterwards. Interestingly, they somehow go back eastward to Kentucky, before making their way back westward to California. Alternatively, and much more likely based upon the lyrics that say they are "Busted flat in Baton Rouge and waiting for a train," the "diesel" in question was a diesel train, which took the pair the relatively short distance from Baton Rouge to New Orleans.
ME AND BOBBY MCGEE BASS TAB DRIVER
The pair hitch a ride from a truck driver and sing as they drive through the American South. The song is the story of two drifters, the narrator and Bobby McGee. He explained that he was trying to convey the despair of the last scene of Federico Fellini’s La Strada in which a broken, war-torn, inebriated man (played by Anthony Quinn) stares up from the beach at the night's stars, and breaks down sobbing. The titular character was named for a studio secretary, Barbara "Bobbie" McKee, but Kristofferson had misheard her surname. The suggestion for the title was a cordial challenge from producer and Monument Records founder Fred Foster to Kris Kristofferson. Billboard ranked Joplin's version as the No. Gordon Lightfoot and Jerry Lee Lewis also released versions reaching number 1 on the country charts in 19 respectively. chart history after " (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding. singles chart in 1971, making the song the second posthumously released No.
A posthumously released version by Janis Joplin topped the U.S. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kris Kristofferson intended. " Me and Bobby McGee" is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller, whose songs "King Of The Road," "Dang Me" and "Do-Wacka-Do" defined a generation of crossover country music.
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