Page type: lyric reference
Artist: John Denver
Canonical path: /john-denver/sweet-melinda
Related lyric paths: 6
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Sweet Melinda
Read Sweet Melinda lyrics by John Denver on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Sweet Melinda
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Pulled out of Linden, Texas
Two days and nights ago
Ive been livin on pills and burgies
Till the whites of my eyes dont show
Southbound headlights are makin me blind
Im 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
Its 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
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John Denver performs "Sweet Melinda", and this lyric page sits inside the John Denver catalog on LyroVerse.
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