(lyrics are written by John Prine)

Angel From Montgomery
songwriter: John Prine
Performed by Chris Jones on “Moonstruck” 2000 (+ Bonnie Raitt, Tanya Tucker and many others)

I am an old woman
Named after my mother
My old man is another
Child who's grown old

If dreams were thunder
Lightning was desire
This old house it would've burned down
A long time ago

Chorus:
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Paint 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
It wasn't much to look at
It was a free ramblin' man
There was a long time
No matter how I tried
The years they just rolled by
Like a broken down dance

Chorus:
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Paint 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
Is just a hard way to go

There'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
To come home in the evening
And have nothing to say

Chorus:
Make me an angel
That flies from Montgomery
Paint 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

Thanks to (Catherine Todd) for correcting these lyrics. Dec 26, 2007