Angel From Montgomery

Written by John Prine

I am an old woman

Named after my mother

My old man is another

Child that's grown old

If dreams were thunder

And lightnin' was desire

This old house would'a burned down

A long time ago

Make me an angel to fly from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing I can hold onto

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl

I had me a cowboy

He wasn't much to look at

Just a free ramblin' man

Aw but that was a long time

And no matter how I try

Those years they just flow by

Like a broken-down dam

Make me an angel to fly from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing I can hold onto

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen

I can hear 'em a-buzzin

But I ain't done nothin

Since I woke up today

How the hell can a person

Go to work in the mornin'

And come home in the evenin'

And have nothin' to say

Make me an angel to fly from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing I can hold onto

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go