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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

“‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.”

I thought 5hat was Janice Joplin in Bobby McGee.


3 posted on 09/18/2021 7:08:34 PM PDT by MonicaG (Stunned... in 2021)
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To: MonicaG

Kris wrote the song.


4 posted on 09/18/2021 7:15:40 PM PDT by jy8z (When push comes disguised as nudge, I do not budge.)
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To: MonicaG

That was what I thought, originally. Turns out that Kris Kristofferson wrote the song. It was recorded by Roger Miller, Kenney Rogers and Gordon Lightfoot but is most remembered as sung by Janis Joplin. I think her version sold so well because it was released posthumously after she ODed on heroin.


7 posted on 09/18/2021 9:43:07 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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