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What's your now, Alibis? Welcome to part two of day 22 of the George Wagner trial. Just

wanted to go ahead and kind of finish up the second half of today's testimony. It wasn't

super long and could be said it was quite entertaining at times, had a great, great witness

in the day with. All right, the first music fact of the day, a real quick, want to say a big,

big thank you to Brad Stacey and Rebecca for the donations. I really appreciate that.

Okay, music fact of the day. So the song Me and Bobby McGee, which is my go-to karaoke song,

always has been. It was co-written by Chris Christofferson and Fred Foster. So how the story of the

song came to be is that Fred Foster had a secretary named Bobby McGee, not McGee McGee.

And she was a secretary at a record label he was working at. And several times one day he kept

running down to his boss's office. And his boss said, you're not coming here to see me, you're

coming to see Bobby McGee. So he said, one day I'm going to write a song about Bobby McGee.

So Chris Christofferson was a new hire there. He was a Texas-born athlete and an army veteran and

had really been trying to break through into the business as a songwriter. So he actually worked

as a janitor in a music row recording studio. After hearing some of his songs, Foster said he would

only hire Christofferson as a songwriter if he also sang a record deal. So in 1969, Foster called

up Christofferson and said, hey, I got an idea for this song. And it's Bobby McGee and she's a woman.

So Christofferson changed it up a little bit, changing McGee to McGee and invented a road song

story about a pair of travelers who drifted apart. And Janice Joplin made it the best song. I think

she's ever done a piece of my heart was really good too. I love all of Janice Joplin's stuff.

But in Janice Joplin's version, she switched the lyrics up and made Bobby McGee a man.

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