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STREETLIGHTS

Angel From Montgomery

                                                           written by John Prine circa 1974
                                                                                               performed by Bonnie Raitt
I am an old woman

Named after my mother
My old man is another

Child that's grown old
If dreams were thunder
And lightnin' was desire
    This old house would've burnt down
           A long time ago
Chorus, audioclip

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 onto
To believe in this livin'
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 ramblin' man

But that was a long time
And no matter how I try
Those years just flow by
Like a broken-down dam

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 onto
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go

There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear 'em there buzzin'
And I ain't done nothin'
Since I woke up today

How the hell can a person
Go to work in the mornin'
And come home in the evenin'
And have nothin' to say

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 onto
To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go

To believe in this livin'
Is just a hard way to go

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