Angel from Montgomery (LP版) - John Prine

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 lightning

Thunder were desire

This old house would have burnt down

A long time ago

Make me an angel

That flies from Montgom'ry

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

Well I had me a cowboy

He weren't much to look at

Just free rambling 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 Montgom'ry

Make me a poster

Of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing

That I can hold on to

To believe in this livin'

Is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen

I can hear 'em there buzzin'

And 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

That flies from Montgom'ry

Make me a poster

Of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing

That I can hold on to

To believe in this livin'

Is just the hard way to go