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| h   Hammer-on
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[Intro]
    x4

[Verse]
           
I am an old wo

            
man   named af

       
ter my mother
             
My old man is 

          
another   chil

           
d that's grown

 
 old
             
If dreams were

          
 thunder   and

              
 lightning was

 
 desire
             
This old house

           
 would've burn

             
t down a long 

  
time ago


[Chorus]
            
Make me an ang

             
el that flies 

         
from Montgomer

y
            
Make me a post

             
er of an old r

   
odeo [Riff 2]
            
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

[Interlude]
    x2

[Verse]
           
When I was a y

            
oung girl   I 

           
had me a cowbo

y
             
Wasn't much to

          
 look at,  jus

           
t a free rambl

   
in' man
           
But that was a

            
 long time,  a

             
nd no matter h

/
ow 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  [Riff 2]
            
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

[Interlude]
    x3

[Verse]
             
There's flies 

           
in the kitchen

             
, I can hear t

  
hem a-buzzin'
             
But I ain't do

           
ne nothin' sin

          
ce I woke up t

  
oday
           
how the hell c

            
an a person go

             
 to work in th

/
e morning
             
Come home in t

           
he evenin', th

          
ey got nothin'

    
 to say

[Chorus]
            
Make me an ang

             
el that flies 

         
from Montgomer

y
            
Make me a post

             
er of an old r

   
odeo  [Riff 2]
            
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

[Outro]
             
To believe in 

             
this living is

             
 just a hard w

     
ay to go