Angel from Montgomery (Live at the Arie Crown Theater, Chicago, January 1985) [Edit]

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 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 When I was a young girl I had me a cowboy He weren't much to look at Just a free ramblin' man But that was a long time And no matter how I tried The years 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 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 all their buzzin' And I ain′t done nothing since I woke up today How the hell can a person Go to work in the morning Come home in the evening And have nothing to say? 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 To believe in this livin′ Is just the hard way to go