I am an old woman named after my mother

My old man is another child that's grown old

If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire

This old house would've burnt down that a long time ago

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery

Make me a poster of an old rodeo

Just give me one thing that I can hold on to

To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

When I was a young girl well I had me a cowboy

He weren't much to look at just a free rambling man

But that was that a long time and no matter how I try

The years just flow by like a broken down dam

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery...

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There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzin'

And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning

And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery...