He speaks about thumbing a diesel truck and singing with the driver all the way.
The song was essentially a road story about two drifters, the narrator and his girlfriend Bobby McGee (boyfriend in Joplin's version). How does that grab you?’ (Laughs) I said, ‘Uh, I’ll try to write it, but I’ve never written a song on assignment.’ So it took me a while to think about. Then Fred says, ‘The hook is that Bobby McKee is a she. It’s “Me and Bobby McKee.”’ I thought he said ‘McGee.’ Bobby McKee was the secretary of Boudleaux Bryant, who was in the same building with Fred. He called one night and said, ‘I’ve got a song title for you. In a conversation with director Monte Hellman called "Somewhere Near Salinas" (available in the supplements to the Two-Lane Blacktop Criterion Collection DVD release, a film in which Kristofferson's version is used on the soundtrack), Kristofferson states that the film La Strada was an inspiration for the song and remarks on the irony of how a song inspired by a classic " road movie" should come to be used in another. Kristofferson states he did not write this song for her, but the song is associated with her, especially in the line "Somewhere near Salinas, Lord, I let her slip away." Joplin, who was allegedly a lover (but also a good friend and mentor) of Kristofferson's from the beginning of her career to her death changed the sex and a few of the lyrics in her cover.
In the original version of the song, Bobby is a woman.
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