The Unlikely Story of the Secretary Who Inspired One of Music’s Greatest Songs “Me and Bobby McGee” was originally about a woman—Barbara “Bobbie” McKee. I talked to her.

"There’s something rather glorious about a song inspired by a mundane, unrequited workplace crush (or so it would have been seen as, at the time) being so beautiful." - @elongreen.bsky.social
@slate.com
#songwriting #Kristofferson
#BobbyMcGee
#BarbaraMcKee
#inspiration
slate.com/culture/2025...