I am an old woman named after my mother   My old man is another child that's grown old   If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire   This old house would've 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 that I can hold on to   To believe in this living is just a hard way to go   When I was a young girl I had me a cowboy,   Wa'n't much to look at, just a free ramblin' man   But that was a long time, and no matter how I try,   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 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   I am kind of person goes to work in the morning   come home in the evenin' 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 that I can hold on to   To believe in this living is just a hard way to go   To believe in this living is just a hard way to go