So you don’t say: Good enough for I and my Bobby McGee. You wouldn’t say: You know, feelin' good was good enough for I. If “me” sounds correct alone, it will be correct with “Bobby and.” When in doubt, forget the English teacher’s voice shouting in your head. Thus, as you speak, write, and post on social media, re-examine the use of “Bobby and I.” Sometimes, it’s just wrong. You know, feelin' good was good enough for me But, as I said before, it’s poetry, so we’ll let that slide. Correct in every single instance.Īnd for those who are wondering, Janis Joplin was correct also. The mayor spoke with Bobby and I during lunch.Ĭorrect. We may hear our English teacher in our head or feel our Mom tapping us on the shoulder, and the echoes of “Bobby and I. Unfortunately, we’ve over-corrected our course regarding the use of “me.” Again, if “me” is the only pronoun in the sentence, our instinct takes over, and it is rarely misused.įor some reason, including another name in the conversation seems to often result in some sort of grammatical blackout. No one stops to ponder the place of “subject” or “object.” We just know. We instinctively say,Īnd for the most part, our grammar teachers have been successful in drilling out of us any tendency for “Me and Bobby went to the store, etc.” We correctly say: Most anyone who speaks English as a first language will instinctively use “I” in all those instances regardless of whether or not another person’s name is included. Regardless of our understanding of subjective and objective case, it just sounds weird, so we don’t overthink it. For instance, no one out of the toddler stage ever says: What’s funny is that almost no one, well-educated or not, uses “I” or “me” incorrectly when it’s the only pronoun in the sentence. Now, I flinch at the erroneous substitution of “Bobby and I” when “Bobby and me” is actually correct. Otherwise well-educated, articulate, and conversant folks have practically eliminated the phrase “Bobby and me” from their conversations and writing. The problem is that we’ve done our job too well. I wouldn’t recommend it, but the force is strong within us. We marked it in papers we stopped students mid-sentence during grammar drills we may even have engaged in the somewhat questionable practice of correcting a friend or family member’s grammar in mid-conversation. We continued to drill in this correction diligently. We English grammarians are a hardy bunch, though, and we refuse to give up. Not Bobby and me.” Usually, the student would nod his/her head and continue with, “Well, as I was saying, Me and Bobby were. We’d emphatically draw out the words, “Bobby and I. well, anyone.” When we heard a student say, “Me and Bobby went to the store,” we would immediately jump to the correction. Felter on drums, they would have gotten a version of Bobby McGee - even on our worst night - that would have blown this version straight into the weeds where it belongs.For a long time, teachers of English grammar drilled down particularly hard on the use of “me and Bobby” or “me and. The irony? if they would have just pointed a couple of mics at the stage at ANY of our -actual- live gigs - particularly those with D. You supported us faithfully, and deserved better. I've always felt that we ripped off our fans with this release, and to any of our old fans who manage to find this review, you have my deepest, most sincere apologies. Since re-recording the drum tracks was out of the question, this mess was the ultimate result. By the time the double-time section came around, things were so ridiculously sped up that you'd think Charlie Benante was behind the kit. Unlike an actual live performance, Patty's tempo was way too fast from the start in this version, and then the drums eventually came in and pushed the beat even harder with soulless, masturbatory style and rather loose sense of time. It was recorded in a project studio on west 26th street in Norfolk,Va, with each musician coming in and laying their parts down individually and separately from the others. To set the record straight, this was not recorded 'live' at JM Randall's, or anywhere else for that matter. PCB honed their version of this song to a fine point over the years, delivering it with soul, attitude, and above all, a groove that would wrap its arms around you and drag you in whether you wanted it or not. Bobby McGee was a staple of their set, one of the few covers that absolutely everyone, regardless of age group, could sink their teeth into.

PCB was a working band that gigged tirelessly, relentlessly up and down the east coast. Actually, that's not accurate at all this isn't a pale representation, it's just bad.

You me and bobby mcgee