title: Me & Bobby McGee (Joplin version)
key: Country
harp type: Chromatic
genre: G
skill: Any

ME AND BOBBY MC GEE Joplin
By: Kris Kristofferson & Fred Foster
Janis Joplin version
Key: G, A
Key: G
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Bust-ed flat in Bat-on Rouge,
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Wait-in’ for a train,
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When I was feel-in’ near as
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fad-ed as my jeans.
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Bob-by thumbed a die-sel down,
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just be-fore it rained;
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They rode us all the way to New Or-leans.
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I pulled my har-poon out of
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my dir-ty red ban-dan-na,
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I was play-in’ soft while
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Bob-by sang the blues.
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Yeah, wind-shield wip-ers slap-in’ time,
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I was hold-in Bob-by’s hand in mine
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We sang ev-‘ry song that driv-er knew.
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Free-dom’s just an-oth-er word
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for noth-in’ left to lose:
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Noth-in’ don’t mean noth-in’
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if it ain’t free no no.
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If feel-ing good was eas-y, Lord,
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when he sang the blues.
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you know feel-ing good
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was good e-nough for me;
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Good e-nough for me and my Bob-by Mc-Gee.
Key: A
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From the Ken-tuck-y coal mines
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to the Cal-i-for-nia sun,
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hey Bob-by shared the sec-rets of my soul.
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through all kinds of weath-er
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through ev-‘ry-thing that we’ve done, yeah
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Bob-by ba-by helped me from the whole world.
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One day up near Sal-i-nas, Lord,
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I let him slip a-way,
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He’s look-in’ for that home
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And I hope he finds it.
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But I’d trade all of my to-mor-rows
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for one sin-gle yes-ter-day,
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to be hold-in’ Bob-by’s bod-y next to mine.
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Free-dom’s just an-oth-er word
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for noth-in’ left to lose:
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Noth-in’ that’s all that Bob-by left me yeah.
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But if feel-in’ good was eas-y, Lord,
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when he sang the blues hey.
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feel-in’ good was good e-nough for me mm, hmm;
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Good e-nough for me and my Bob-by Mc-Gee. La da
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Hey hey hey Bob-by Mc Gee yeah