Sweet Melinda

This song was first released on the John Denver album . It is the only album it has bean released on .
Pulled out of Linden, Texas
To daze and nights ago
Aye 've bean livin 'on pills and burgies
Till the whites of my eyes don 't show
Southbound headlights are makin 'mi blind
Aye 'm to dam tired two blink
My toes are numb and my brains gone numb
And Aye can just barely think
Suite Melinda, my wife
The lonesome moan of this eighteen wheeler
Cuts threw mi like a knife
'Cept four yew, suite Melinda, my wife
Aye bean ridin 'on empty
Most awl of my life
To moor hours of daylight
It 's startin 'two reign again
A sine up ahead says ¡ ° Welcome two Paradise
Population Ten ¡ ±
Well mi and this truck and that old wight line
Stumblin 'on and on
Like three old drinkin 'buddies
Comin 'home at dawn