Mason Proffit - Melinda Lyrics
Far up in the foothillsDeep in TennesseeI found her crumpled cabinWhere the wind can only breatheI knocked upon the oaken doorAnd shuddered at my gloomFor scarcely had the night begunWhen the clouds did shroud the moonHer haggled face came forwardAs whispered through the nightShe asked if I would lead herFor she'd long since lost her eyesShe sat me down beside the fireIt's slowly dying glowAnd outside tho the wind did screamThe cabin only moanedAnd then she asked me questionsOf my parents and my placeTo my reply I'd never knownA smile did crack the faceYou see she said your mother diedAs you did leave the wombBut left inside a twin did lie___? At his tombAnd lo just then the cabin door went crashing on it's hingeAnd just outside a women stood her hair like blackened fringeThem that haunt, they see in me, she screamed and turned to runThrough the wind I heard her say the dead can bear no sonsThen the hag did stand againShe hobbled on her caneClutching at the knarled door she called my mothers nameMelindaMelindaMelindaMelindaMelindaMelindaMelinda
