Intro:  D  G  x4
 
 

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I am an old woman   named after my mother
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My old man is another   child that's grown old
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If dreams were thunder   and lightning was desire
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This old house would've burnt down a long time ago

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Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
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Make me a poster of an old rodeo
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Just give me one thing that I can hold on to
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To believe in this living is just a hard way to go

 
When I was a young girl         I had me a cowboy
Wasn'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

 
Interlude: D  G  x4
 

There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear them a-buzzin'
But I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
Come home in the evenin', they got nothin' to say 

Chorus  + 
 

D                   C               A          D
To believe in this living is just a hard way to go