Angel from Montgomery - Live

(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 thunder
 And lightnin' was desire
 This old house would have burnt 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, Lord, that I can hold onto
 To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
 When I was a young girl
 I had me a cowboy
 He wasn't much to look at
 Just a free ramblin' man
 Oh, but that was such a long time
 And no matter how I try
 Those years they 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, I can hold onto
 To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
 There's flies in the kitchen
 I can hear all their buzzin'
 But I ain't done nothin
 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 nothin' to say?
 Make me an angel, that flies from Montgomery
 Make me a poster of an old rodeo
 Just give me one thing I can hold onto
 To believe in this living is just a hard way to go