Capo on the 2nd fret.


[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 light

             
ning 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 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 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


[Interlude]


[Verse 3]

             
There's flies 

             
in the kitchen

             
 I can hear 'e

         
m there buzzin

g
             
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?


[Outro/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