[Verse 1]
             
I am an old wo

            
man named afte

           
r 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'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.
             
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 I ha

              
d 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 3]
            
There's flies 

              
in the kitchen

             
, I can hear a

           
ll their buzzi

n'
             
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
            
And come home 

              
in the evenin'

             
 and have noth

         
in' 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.