Angel From Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt

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Angel From Montgomery
Bonnie Raitt and John Prine

[Verse]
            
I am an old wo

             
man, named aft

      
er my mother
             
My old man is 

            
another child 

             
that's grown o

ld
             
If dreams were

            
 thunder and l

             
ightning was d

esire
             
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]
            
When I was a y

             
oung girl, had

      
 me a cowboy
             
Wasn't much to

             
 look at, just

             
 a free rambli

   
n' man
             
But that was a

             
 long time, an

             
d no matter ho

  
w 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]
             
There's flies 

             
in the kitchen

             
, I can hear '

   
em buzzin'
             
But I ain't do

             
ne nothin'...s

             
ince I woke up

   
 today
             
How the hell c

            
an a person, g

              
o to work in t

   
he mornin'
             
Come home in t

             
he evenin', an

             
d have nothin'

    
 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