Key: D
Introduction: D G
D G D G
I am an old woman named after my mother
D G A D
My old man is another child that' s grown old
D G D G
If dreams were thunder and lightning was desire
D G A D
This old house would' ve burnt down a long time ago
D C G D
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
D C G D
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
D C G D
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
D G A D
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
D G D G
When I was a young girl I had me a cowboy
D G A D
Wasn' t much to look at, just a free ramblin' man
D G D G
But that was a long time, and no matter how I try
D G A D
The years just flow by like a broken-down dam
D C G D
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
D C G D
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
D C G D
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
D G C D
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
D G D G
There' s flies in the kitchen, I can hear them a-buzzin'
D G A D
But I ain' t done nothin' since I woke up today
D G D G
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
D G A D
Come home in the evenin' , they got nothin' to say
D C G D
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
D C G D
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
D C G D
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
D G C D
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go
D C A D
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go