Your Morning Kris

For Monday, October 7th, 2024

Week 81 of our regular morning feature here at Friedman of the Plains Worldwide in which we highlight the great words and works of great men and women, as well as those who are insufferable, delusional, and even fictional.

This Week Kris Kristofferson

Just say she was someone
Lord, so far from home
Whose life was so lonesome
She died all alone
Who dreamed pretty dreams
That never came true
Lord, why was she born
So black and blue?
Oh, why was she born
So black and blue? — Epitaph for Janis Joplin

Bonus:

I wish I had the exact quote, but I remember Kristofferson, a Rhodes Scholar, once saying something to the effect that part of the secret of writing good Country Music was to understand the feel, the narrative, the grammar of it all, which is why, he concluded, “Bobby McGee and I” would never have been a hit.