Bonnie Raitt - Angel from Montgomery (Written by John Prine) ...

I don't know how any person could listen to this and not be brought to their knees, SO simple ~ yet SO haunting ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhe3vb0z7mY

I am an old woman named after my mother
My old man is another child thats grown old
If dreams were lightnin' thunder was desire
This old house would have burnt down a long time ago

Chorus:
Make me an angel that flies from montgomry
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, 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
The years just flow by like a broken down dam.

Chorus:
Make me an angel that flies from montgomry
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

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 evening and have nothing to say?

Chorus:
Make me an angel that flies from montgomry
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