Angel From Montgomery

Bonnie Raitt

John Prine

Capo 2

[Intro]

D		GaddD		D		GaddD

D		GaddD		D		GaddD

Verse-1:

D	GaddD	D	GaddD
I am an old	woman	named after my	mother

	D	GaddD	A	D
my	old man is	another	child that’s grown	old

D	GaddD	D	GaddD
if dreams were	thunder	and lightning de	sire

	D	GaddD	A	D
this	old house would have	burnt down a	long time	ago

Chorus

D	C	G	D
Make me an	angel that	flies from	Montgomery

D	C	G	D
make me a	poster of an	old rode	o

D	C	G	D
just give me	one thing that	I can hold	on to

D	G	A	D	GaddD
to believe in this	living is just a	hard	way to	go

Verse-2:

D	G	D	G
when I was a	young girl	I had me a	cowboy

	D	G	C	D
he	weren’t much to	look at just a	free rambling	man

D	G	D	G
but there was a	long time that	no matter how	I tried

D	G	A	D
the years just	flow by like a	broken down	dam

Chorus

D	C	G	D
Make me an	angel that	flies from	Montgomery

D	C	G	D
make me a	poster of an	old rode	o

D	C	G	D
just give me	one thing that	I can hold	on to

D	G	A	D	GaddD
to believe in this	living is just a	hard	way to	go

Verse-3:

D	G	D	G
there’s flies in the	kitchen	I can hear ’em there	buzzing

D	G	A	D
and I ain’t done	nothing since I	woke up to	day

D	G	D	G
how the hell can a	person	go to work in the	morning

D	G	A	D
come home in the	evening and have	nothing to	say?

Chorus

D	C	G	D
Make me an	angel that	flies from	Montgomery

D	C	G	D
make me a	poster of an	old rode	o

D	C	G	D
just give me	one thing that	I can hold	on to

D	G	A	D	GaddD
to believe in this	living is just a	hard	way to	go

[Outro]

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