This is base on live videos of Bonnie Raitt Live in Wonderland Holland
Tuning Drop D, capo 2
As the tuning is in Drop D Bonnie Raitt don't play the G chord but an Em7 instead of.


[Intro]: 
   


[verse 1]
           
I am an old wo

            
man named afte

      
r my mother
             
My old man is 

           
another child 

           
thats grown ol

d
             
If dreams were

          
 lightning thu

           
nder was desir

e
             
This old house

            
 would have bu

            
rnt down a lon

    
g time ago

[Chorus]
            
Make me an ang

           
el that flies 

             
from montgomer

 
y
            
Make me a post

           
er of an old r

    
odeo
            
Just give me o

              
ne thing that 

          
I can hold on 

to
             
To believe in 

             
this living is

          
 just a hard w

      
ay to go

[verse 2]
            
When I was a y

            
oung girl well

             
, I had me a c


owboy
             
He werent much

           
 to look at, j

           
ust free rambl

ing man
             
But that was a

          
 long time and

           
 no matter how

 I try
             
The years just

            
 flow by like 

            
a broken down 

    
dam.

[Chorus]
            
Make me an ang

           
el that flies 

             
from montgomer

 
y
            
Make me a post

           
er of an old r

    
odeo
            
Just give me o

              
ne thing that 

          
I can hold on 

to
             
To believe in 

             
this living is

          
 just a hard w

      
ay to go

[verse 3]
            
Theres flies i

            
n the kitchen 

             
I can hear the


m there buzzin

g
             
And I aint don

           
e nothing sinc

           
e I woke up to

day.
             
How the hell c

          
an a person go

           
 to work in th

e morning
             
And come home 

            
in the evening

            
 and have noth

    
ing to say.

[Chorus]
            
Make me an ang

           
el that flies 

             
from montgomer

 
y
            
Make me a post

           
er of an old r

    
odeo
            
Just give me o

              
ne thing that 

          
I can hold on 

to
             
To believe in 

             
this living is

          
 just a hard w

      
ay to go
             
To believe in 

             
this living is

          
 just a hard w

      
ay to go
N.C.
[Note]
Em7 0 2 0 0 3 0