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