I prefer this song strummed rather than finger picked, however it may work if the second guitar picked it
Oringinlly recorded in D swo capo 7 or transpose to D (G=D C=G D=A F=C)
[VERSE]
[G C] [G C]
I am an old woman named after my mother.
[G C] [D G]
My old man is another child that's grown old.
[G C] [G C]
If dreams were lightning and thunder were desire
[G C] [D G]
this old house would've burnt down a long time ago.
[CHORUS]
[G F] [C G]
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
[G F] [C G]
Make me a poster of an old rodeo.
[G F] [C G]
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to.
[G C] [D G] [G C] [G C]
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.
[VERSE]
[G C] [G C]
When I was a young girl I had me a cowboy,
[G C] [D G]
He wa'rn't much to look at, just a free ramblin' man.
[G C] [G C]
But that was a long time, and no matter how I try,
[G C [D G]
the years just flow by like a broken-down dam.
[CHORUS and VERSE INSTRUMENTAL
[CHORUS]
[G F] [C G]
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery.
[G F] [C G]
Make me a poster of an old rodeo.
[G F] [C G]
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to.
[G C] [D G] [G C] [G C]
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.
[VERSE]
[G C] [G C]
There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear 'em there buzzin'
[G C] [D G]
and I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today.
C] [G C]
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
[G C] [D G]
and come home in the evenin' and have nothin' to say?
[CHORUS]
[OUTRO Slowing down]
[G C] [D G]
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.