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"I'll tell you 'bout Texas Radio and the Big Beat... I'll tell you 'bout the hopeless night Wandering the Western dream Tell you 'bout the maiden with raw iron soul" -- Jim Morrison, "The Wasp" The Cosmic Giggle must have been in full-tilt hysterics on January 19, 1943 when the oil refinery seaport of Port Arthur, Texas, won the heavenly crapshoot as the birthplace of rock & roll's first female superstar, Janis Joplin. In retrospect, Port Arthur's most famous daughter both defied and defined the Texas town that raised, rejected, reviled, then ultimately rejoiced in her brief, mad existence. In a way that she never would have admitted then (but might now), Port Arthur made Janis Joplin what she was -- a more tolerant, nurturing atmosphere might have diluted the fi More... (Submit New Janis Joplin Lyrics) (Submit New Janis Joplin Lyrics) Review about Janis Joplin Very Soulful Song | Reviewer: Duncan ------ About the song Me & Bobby Mc Gee performed by Janis Joplin altough most songs that were massive 1# hit singles were terrible this songs is very soulful and conveys the old bluesy feeling of i personally prefer the previous years "I Got Dem Ol Kozmic Blues Again Mama" which i think is very over looked overall great song! Feedback | Reviewer: Cindy ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin Glad to see a few more posts, and more info on the song. I'm usually so anal about looking things up and figuring out what exactly is...so I guess it has been refreshing to take this song at it's worth and just enjoy it. I am a big music fan, in any genre, and I just love seeing how this song touches other people. I was about to un-bookmark this page, but I guess I'll hang around for awhile, with more fans writing and commenting. It's so interesting to see how other people appreciate or translate something that you love! janis'' | Reviewer: autumn ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin hi, janis joplin, was the soul of this song ' there are many singers and styles of this song,but only one sang its true heart , she put her heart into everything she sang and kris must have heard her sing it and was convinced she did it right, there are good writers out there everywhere, but not as many who sing it with so much feeling that way anymore.. its too bad she died so young ,what a loss, so much she could have taught others about that heart of music.. or the way she sang from the blues and jazz style of hers and this is a very well written song . a good song can say so much to you if their well written.. they touch your soul in so many ways, happyness or sadness you get into that mood, if theres a good song and a great singer, it can do that, this is one of many that relax you ,you can relate to your younger days when all was carefree and happy go lucky.. great song!! Harpoon | Reviewer: Paul ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin We must remember that this song was originally written by Kris Kristofferson about a GIRL named Bobby McGee, and trust me, even though Kris had long hair back in the day, he did not use anything to tie it back. The harpoon that he pulled out from his dirty bandana is referring to his harmonica, which is also called a Harp, French Harp, Blues Harp, and by Kris, as slang, when he created a new word; Harpoon. People wrap their Harmonicas in bandanas because... Well, as sick as it may sound, they get a bit of spit collected in them. Most pros play with a bandana to absorb this spit, because it's not as gross as allowing the spit to fly all over the place when playing. Another tidbit... Kris was dating Janis at the time of her death, and "Me and Bobby McGee" was released posthumously, so she was never able to see it become her #1 hit. ... | Reviewer: hop ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin I've just discovered this song(about a week ago or that), and can't stop listening it. would someone please tell me if it is a popular song (I mean this kinda song that nobody knows who the author is ) or which is the original version? sorry about my english, thanks references | Reviewer: Elvira ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin I always remembered it as 'from the coalmines of Kentucky to the California rain' Yes 'rain'...as in irony...as in 'It never rains in Southern California'....but then I was probably too busy tripping with Puff to hear it straight! Woah | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Kozmic Blues (in album I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! ) performed by Janis Joplin The very first Janis song that my ears ever heard. The first time she spoke to my heart and heard my soul. This song, instrumentation, and delivery is amazing. Really got me through some tough times....still does. Reply to Cindy (and Cena) | Reviewer: Dgrieux ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin It might make sense on its own, but it doesn't make sens with the next sentence. Please search on youtube for "RARE 1st Studio Recording Of "Me & Bobby McGee" Janis Joplin" and you'll hear her very clearly singing: "I pulled my harpoon OUT OF my dirty red bandana" followed by the words "AND I was playing...". By the way, this word -AND- does not appear in this transcription of the lyrics. For me, this makes a lot more sense. She pulls the harmonica out AND starts playing is more plausible than pulling a hair accessory, which would be a very descriptive gesture for a not so significant action as letting her hair down. Wow | Reviewer: Jenn ------ About the song Maybe performed by Janis Joplin I am 14 years old and less then a month ago i learned of Janis Joplin and it has had a hugh impact on my life. My dad gave me all of his Joplin records on vynal and i just can not stop lisening to them. She has inspired me. Unable to Stop Loving | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Piece of My Heart performed by Janis Joplin It very well could mean a challenge. I've had experiences like those before, but when I hear this song, I am reminded of other feelings. To me, this song signifies a woman's love. How it is unstopable. This song is how true love should be defined. You can break my heart, but I won't leave you and I won't stop loving you. Yes, you have been a jerk, but I fell in love with. I see more to you than how you can hurt me. When you hold me in your arms, you are someone different than the juvenile and cruel man that hurt me. I will always forgive you and love you, because my heart is strong. I am tough, and you can take my heart, rip it to pieces, and then eat it, but only you can do that. Because I love you and I have already given you my heart anyways. This song shows the side of love that most people never want to deal with, or don't even want to aknowledge that it exists. It is inevitable, the people you love will hurt you, but will you let them "take another piece of your heart"? Reply to Cena | Reviewer: Cindy ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin That makes a lot of sense. Lyrics sound like, "I pulled my harpoon out of my dirty red bandanna..." which would be fitting if it's something in the hair. Either way, I have no clue, but will always love it. You had a great post!!! One of my favorite songs | Reviewer: Cena ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin My aunt taught me this song as a "road-trip" song when I was a teen about 1980. One or two of the lines were a little different, but as a singer, I'm sure that she altered it a word or two herself. We belted it out at the top of our lungs with the windows down driving down the road. As a girl who grew up in the 70's, a harpoon was a short stick you stuck through a piece of leather to pull your hair back. I've known of it to be used with a bandanna, again as a hair containment unit. I'm not disagreeing about it being a harmonica, Lord knows, I don't know. But since the referrence includes the bandanna, I have alwasy seen it as letting her hair down. The version that I know is "I pulled my harpoon and my dirty red bandanna". I sing it to my children. Please people!! | Reviewer: Cindy ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin The only lyrics I'm gonna cause a disruption and disagree about are..."I'd trade all my tomorrows..." The way what I have always listened to it, it was, "I'd trade all my tomorrows, FOR ONE SINGLE YESTERDAY..." Other than that, rock on! Maybe I'm just a hippy at heart but this song is too great to get into petty, self-important arguments about!! Let's just take it for what it is and say that whatever the hell she was on, this is one of the best songs ever written, re-recorded, whatever. I fell in love with this song 6 years ago, even though it's before my time. Creativity can be brought about several self-induced ways. Thank goodness she made hers work! Love it and always will!!!!!!! As far as "Lucy", and "Puff", we have all heard the rumors...blah, blah, blah. Guess what, if I was on or off any of that stuff, they became greater hits and classics than many of the intellectualize could have ever written themselves. If you are so great, top it with your own recording and get back to me. At that point, I shall willingly fall on my knees and bow!!! Until then...find something worthwhile to over-intellectualize and get off on, (to your own self-important, too opinionated selves. Great music is great music!!! out of this world | Reviewer: David Hernandez ------ About the song Maybe performed by Janis Joplin Out of all the songs janis recorded, ''maybe'' has to be the song you can hear her pouring her heart and soul out into every word she sings. Im 26 and the first time I heard this recording I was ten years old, listening to my parents 45's on an old record player, I think music now has lost what janis brought to us back then, and my generation needs to open up and listen to what music was back then to appreciate it now. Janis was taken way too soon, but her music, her words, and her voice, will live forever one of the greatest songs so little known | Reviewer: charly s ------ About the song Misery 'n performed by Janis Joplin I definitely think this song is one of greatest Janis' gems, which is saying something. Only available on a couple of compilations, incredibly left out of studio records, I love the rendition, full of heart and depth as only Janis could. Amazing. Harpoon = Harmonica | Reviewer: Dan ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin Folks, take it from a long-time (over 60 yrs!) blues lover - many of the old classic blues artists, now long since passed, would have instantly understood the reference to a harmonica as a "harpoon" - it's simply an extension of the nickname "harp", or "mouth harp", and was fairly commonly used in blues circles in the south. Yes, Kris Kristofferson wrote the song, and yes, Roger Miller recorded it. In each case, the lyrics were slightly different, as is the case with Janis' take on it. Again, fairly typical of the blues culture. The song is basically a "lost-love" song, or at least, Janis' version is. Trying to assign drug references to it is foolish and straw-grasping. Yeah, I know, she probably handled more drugs in her tragically short lifetime than a Walgreens pharmacist, but that doesn't mean that everything she sang was drug-related. Just enjoy the music, the soul and emotion. Quit trying to find obscure hidden meanings. Doesn't it annoy you when people try to read stuff into things you say when you had no intention of saying them? A Challenege | Reviewer: Anonymous ------ About the song Piece of My Heart performed by Janis Joplin One time I witnessed an argument between my friend and her parent's. Her mother attempted to hit her, but my friend grabbed her mother's arm before her mother could hit her. At that point, she stared her mother in the eyes and said, "Hit me! Go head, hit me!" I think that is what this song is about -- a woman who is in a relationship with someone who keeps breaking her heart even though she does her best the keep the person happy. Finally, fed up, she stands up for herself and challenges the man to hurt her, but at the same time asserting that she is stronger, and she isn't going to just sit back and let it happen. Dear ' Check Wikapedia ' | Reviewer: Miss.AmandaRose ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin Okay ... First off wikapedia is the -shall I say worst?- search engine ever , Any dumbass can put his/her oppinion on wikapedia , so the information you are getting from there could be 100 % false for all you know. second thing "People love to assign hidden meanings to things because it makes them feel like they have some sort of special knowledge, even when there is no special meaning there. For example: the idiots who think "Puff the Magic Dragon" was about pot or "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" was about LSD." You said this as a sucker punch to the other reveiwer ,And hey brainiac , What do you think those songs are about ? Puff the magic dragon ? do you think he accually has a pet dragon ? O.o Haha , you probly do , and you probly got that info from wikapedia . .....but Roger Miller was no Pat Boone | Reviewer: Monica Crump ------ About the song Me & Bobby McGee performed by Janis Joplin "Check Wikipedia" says the lyrics aren't drug references because Roger Miller wasn't into heroin. True, he was too busy tweaking on speed to bother with heroin. When his drummer was asked when the last time Miller had slept was, he said "Can't really say, I've only worked for him for 3 years". taking it back | Reviewer: casey ------ About the song Piece of My Heart performed by Janis Joplin i think shes sayin that she wants you to realize what the guy is doing as he tears her heart open and then trying to get her back then doing it again kinda sounds like my friend and I. he broke my heart because he got me pregnant and now hes with God knows how many other girls. ): i pray he comes back to me. You could review the artist/band Janis Joplin in Biography page You could review Janis Joplin album by visiting Albums page and selecting an album You could review Janis Joplin song by clicking the song which you like  Download "Janis Joplin" Music | |
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