Verse 1
I am an old woman
Named after my mother

My old man is another
Child who's grown old


If dreams were thunder
And lightning was desire
This old house would've burned 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 livin'

Is just a hard way to go

Verse 2

When I was a young girl
I had me a cowboy
He wasn't much to look at

Just a free ramblin' man
But that was a long time
And no matter how I tried

The years they just rolled 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 livin'
Is just a hard way to go


Verse 3
There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'

And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
But how the hell can a person
Go on to work in the morning

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 livin'
Is just a hard way to go