I am an old woman Named after my mother My old man's another child that's grown old, yeah If love was like lightnin' And thunder desire This whole house would have burnt down A long time ago, yeah 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 livin' Is just a hard way to go, yeah When I was a young girl I had me a cowboy He weren't much to look at Just a free ramblin' man But that was a long time No matter how I tried These dreams do go by Like a broken down dam Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo, yeah Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go, so There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em buzzin' I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today, yeah How the hell can a person Go to work in the mornin' Come home in the evenin' Have nothin' to say Make me an angel That flies from Montgomery Make me a poster Of an old rodeo, yeah Just give me one thing That I can hold on to To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go To believe in this livin' Is just a hard way to go