A Parody of Me and Bobby McGee by Freedom Toast. “Me and Bobby McGee” is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Video production by Cinebot Video.
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LYRICS by Freedom Toast
Bobby Kennedy (Bobby McGee)
Got Covid down in Baton Rouge, my lungs afire with pain
No one yet had come up with vaccines
Went looking for a doctor, but they said get back indoors
We’re giving you a year of quarantines
Pfizer and Moderna started working on a remedy
Bobby junior thought he heard his cues,
Said, “Stop those vaccinations, boys,
They don’t do any good,” they only
Turn your eyes red and turn your lips blue
Flouride’s just another a word for teeth that you won’t lose
Raw milk might be good or might not be
“I have no position on a woman’s right to choose
“I’m a man, so don’t come asking me,”
Said Secretary Bobby Kenne-dy
From those cozy Boston street labs to the side streets of L.A.
My coughing could be heard through warm and cold
I asked clinics for admission, and they said, “too bad, no way,”
“You have got no health insurance and you’re old”
Then somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I got myself vaccine
That cure that Bobby said I’d never find
Now I’d trade my days of blue jeans for his necktie in D.C.
Talkin’ nonsense, never need to mind
Flouridation’s just a word for teeth that you won’t lose
Health care, he don’t care to oversee
Conspiracies and theories are ideas he will choose
And unless (^) that you find that you agree
Please do not call Bobby Kennedy
La la la etc………
ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SONG
“Me and Bobby McGee” is a song written by American singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson and originally performed by Roger Miller. Fred Foster shares the writing credit, as Kristofferson wrote the song based on a suggestion from Foster.
In 2002, the 1971 version of the song by Janis Joplin on Columbia Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.
The suggestion for the title was a cordial challenge from producer and Monument Records founder Fred Foster to Kris Kristofferson. The titular character was named for a studio secretary, Barbara “Bobbie” McKee, but Kristofferson had misheard her surname. 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 song is the story of two drifters, the narrator and Bobby McGee. The pair hitch a ride from a truck driver and sing as they drive through the American South before making their way westward. They visit California and then part ways somewhere near Salinas, with the song’s narrator expressing sadness afterwards.
Due to the singer’s name never being mentioned and the name “Bobby” being gender-neutral (especially in the US), the song has been recorded by both male and female singers as a heterosexual love song with only minor differences in the lyrical content.
Roger Miller was the first artist to record the song (in May 1969), and it appeared at No. 12 on the U.S. country chart in 1969. 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. On the Canadian charts, Gordon Lightfoot’s version (recorded in November 1969) hit No. 13 on the pop music chart and No. 1 on the country music chart in 1970. The song was included on the 1970 Statler Brothers’ album Bed of Rose’s, but was not released as a single.
Kristofferson recorded his own version of the song on his debut album “Kristofferson” in 1970. Later that year, his version of the song appeared in Monte Hellman’s psychedelic road movie Two-Lane Blacktop. Kristofferson also appears briefly singing the song in the 1971 Dennis Hopper film The Last Movie.
Janis Joplin recorded the song for inclusion on her Pearl album only a few days before her death in October 1970. Singer Bob Neuwirth taught it to her while Kristofferson was in Peru filming The Last Movie with Dennis Hopper. Kristofferson did not know she had recorded the song until the day after her death. Record World called it a “perfect matching of performer and material.” Joplin’s version topped the charts to become her only number one single.