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Angel From Montgomery Lyrics
I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child that's grown old
If dreams were thunder, lightening was desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago
Make me an angel that flies from Montgom'ry
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 free rambling man
But that was 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 Montgom'ry
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
There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzing
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 Montgom'ry
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
My old man is another child that's grown old
If dreams were thunder, lightening was desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago
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
He weren't much to look at, just free rambling man
But that was a long time and no matter how I try
The years just flow by like a broken down dam.
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
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 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
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She's a free-spirit at heart who has been trapped by her life. And now it's too late to undo the choices she has made and the freedom she gave up.
Such wonderful characterization. I love this song.
Sad but true for many people. Life with a person who has nothing to say is lonely and depressing. People do find something to hang on to, some kind of hope, just to make it through the day. One of my favorite songs...Prine with Ronnie Raitt of course.
"How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say."
Some of my favorite lines. Embodies that angst I feel about work slicing into our time on this earth.
"To believe in this living is just a hard way to go. . ."
Damn.
I love how John Prine wrote this song and sings it from a woman's perspective. He does it so naturally that it doesn't seem odd.
@bhoover247 This is the thing that always gets me about it. I'm more familiar with the Bonnier Rait version, I finally looked up his version to see if he actually wrote it that way and she didn't change it. I take a great songwriter to put themselves in that place, not to mention a little bit of guts to release a song written that way in 1971.
@bhoover247 This is the thing that always gets me about it. I'm more familiar with the Bonnier Rait version, I finally looked up his version to see if he actually wrote it that way and she didn't change it. I take a great songwriter to put themselves in that place, not to mention a little bit of guts to release a song written that way in 1971.
I heard it first on the film "Into The Wild" such a great movie. And such a great duet by Chris and Tracy..their voices are awesome. Love Tracy's voice and I will always have Chris view on my life, he is my saviour.
John Prine nails it, and so matter of factly but sweetly too. Reminds me of Dylan because he says so much in so little words and it's pure poetry. I have listened to this song so many times, but today it grabbed ahold of me like songs and poetry sometime do.I wept because it is about my life. It is hard to hold on, but I do have hope that he still loves me. And I'm turning 50. I never ever thought I'd end up here. (I'm named after my mother too, and she was at this place in her life when she was my age, but she has a very full life now and my dad got it together. She held on.)
This song is a text book example of great songwriting. Dave Matthews fans would know this tune done on VH1 storytellers. a great cover.
everyone should get the duet with john and bonnie raitt, awesome stuff in that one
This is another awesome Prine song. It's very sad and he was the perfect voice for it. I really like it.