"Riding with Private Malone" is a song written by Wood Newton and Thom Shepherd, and recorded by American country music artist David Ball.

[2] Co-writer Wood Newton stated in an interview that Thom Shepherd had the name of Malone, because it rhymed with home.

The song describes a narrator who has just finished his military service and finds a classified ad for an "old Chevy".

He opens its glove compartment, where he finds a note written by the car's former owner, a deceased soldier of the Vietnam War.

On some occasions, he claims to have visions of a soldier sitting in the passenger seat (i.e., Private Malone's ghost) and the radio would tune itself to an oldies program, "especially late at night."

"[4] Deborah Evans Price, of Billboard magazine reviewed the song favorably saying that the lyric "incorporates all the elements that make traditional country great - patriotism, tragedy, survival, and, of course, a cool car."