Bonnie Raitt and John Prine Angel from Montgomery American Folk

I am an old woman Named after my mother My old man is another Child who s grown old If dreams were thunder And lightning was desire This old house would ve burned down 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 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 a free ramblin man But that was a long time And no matter how I tried The year