angel from montgomery

Singer: 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 was 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. there's flies in the kitchen i can hear 'em there 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.