Standard (EADGBE)

I am an old woman named after my mother

My old man is another child that’s grown old

If dreams were thunder lightning was desire

This old house would have burnt down a long time ago

(Chorus)

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

(Instrumental break)

(Verse 2)

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

He wasn’t much to look at, just free rambling man

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

The years just flow by like a broken down dam.

(Chorus)

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

(Instrumental Break)

(Verse 3)

There’s flies in the kitchen I can hear all their buzzing

And I ain’t done nothing 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 nothing to say.

(Chorus)

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