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 it 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 2When I was a young girl

I had me a cowboy

he wasn't much to look at

he was a free ramblin' man

That was a long time

and no matter how I tried

the years they just rolled by

like a broken down [dam?]dance

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 3There'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

chorusMake 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