What do the lyrics mean to Melissa?

Answer 1

My dad & I have an alternative meaning (for us) of this song. He traveled for work all the time, being torn about being gone from me because he was all I had. He had custody of me since I was 5. This became “our song” because he never wanted to be gone, but he didn’t have a choice. And he said I would always be his Sweet Melissa. I know it’s a far off interpretation of the song, but it fits.

Answer 2

Sweet Melissa was Greg Allman's motorcycle. In order to settle his nerves, he would drive it around Macon, GA when he got home.

Greg died on Sweet Melissa one morning on a lightly traveled downtown Macon street. It was just a freak accident.

The above story is not true.Gregg Allman is alive and well and still performing tour dates. Gregg was writing this song in 1967 at a Florida hotel and couldn't come up with a name for the song. One night at a grocery store he heard a woman calling her daughter and her name was Melissa and that is where he got the name in the song and the title.

Answer 3

Most likely the song you are referring to is "Melissa" by the Allman Brothers Band. You can always try googling the lyrics.

Answer 4

The Allman Brothers, Greg Allman singing. Former Cher husband, post Sonny.

Answer 5

On Song Meanings website someone wrote this:

>>Having been on the road with Gregg for years and spending enormous times cooped up in hotel rooms with nothing to do but talk, I can assure you that joekerr21 is correct. Gregg was in a grocery store in Ft Walton Beach, FL staying at a cheap motel on Hwy 98. He had been working on the song and the name was the last tidbit he needed to finish the song. He was standing in line and the lady behind him was calling out to her daughter, Melissa, who was laughing and sort of teasing her mom by running away.

southernallmanon May 24, 2009