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 have 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, Lord , that 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



Oh, but that was such a long time

And no matter how I try

Those years they 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, 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 all their buzzin'

But I ain't done nothin

Since I woke up today



How the hell can a person

Go to work in the morning

And come home in the evening

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 I can hold onto

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