I am an old woman named after my mother My old man is another child that's grown old Dreams was thunder and lightning 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 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 He was't much to look at, no, he's just a free rambling man That was a long time and no matter how I try The 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 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 ♪ There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear 'em there buzzing And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today Tell me how can a person go to work in the morning And 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 living is just a hard way to go To believe in this living is just a hard way to go To believe in this living is just a hard... ♪ Hard way to go