Angel From Montgomery
JOHN PRINE

[Intro]
          

[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

            
 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 Montgom'r

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 weren't muc

           
h to look at, 

             
just free ramb

  
ling 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 Montgom'r

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 '

em there buzzi

ng
             
And I ain't do

           
ne nothing 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 evening

           
 and have noth

             
ing to say

[Chorus]
            
Make me an ang

             
el that flies 

        
from Montgom'r

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

[Outro] (Fade out)