and these amazing words were written by a 16 year old boy
I am an old woman
named after my mother
My old man is another
child grown old
If dreams were thunder
Lightening was desire
This house would've burned down
such a long time ago
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of that old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold onto
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go
When I was a young girl
I had me a cowboy he wasn't much to look at
just was a free ramblin' man
There was a long time
no matter how hard I tried
The years they just rolled by
like a broken down dance
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster of that old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold onto
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go
There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
But how the hell can a person
go on to work in the morning
to come home in the evening
and have nothing to say
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
Make me a poster from that old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold onto
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go...