Sweet Melinda

This song was first released on the john denver album. it is the only album it has been released on.

Pulled out of linden, texas

Two days and nights ago

I've been livin' on pills and burgies

Till the whites of my eyes don't show

Southbound headlights are makin' me blind

I'm too damn tired to blink

My toes are numb and my brains gone numb

And i can just barely think

Sweet melinda, my wife

The lonesome moan of this eighteen wheeler

Cuts through me like a knife

'cept for you, sweet melinda, my wife

I been ridin' on empty

Most all of my life

Two more hours of daylight

It's startin' to rain again

A sign up ahead says ※welcome to paradise

Population ten§

Well me and this truck and that old white line

Stumblin' on and on

Like three old drinkin' buddies

Comin' home at dawn