I am an old woman named after my mother

My old man is another child that's grown old

If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire

This old house would've burnt down a long time ago

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

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

When I was a young girl I had me a cowboy,

Wa'n't much to look at, just a free ramblin' man

But that was a long time, and no matter how I try,

The years just flow by like a broken-down dam

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

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

There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear all their buzzin'

but I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today

I am kind of person goes to work in the morning

come home in the evenin' and have nothin' to say

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

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

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