Angel From Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt, John Prine

[appalachiablue]

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 years they just rolled by
Like a broken down dam

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

There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear them there buzzin'
And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
But how the hell can a person
Go on to work in the morning
Come home in the evening
And have nothing to say

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

~ Words cannot describe how sad it is to lose a legend like this. RIP John. I hope you're flying high with that angel.

[bahboo]

1. cannot K & R this enough....

[appalachiablue]

2. A real work of beauty by two of the best.

[hippywife]

3. I so love these two and this song.

His death hit so hard. So did Nanci Griffith's. Really hard. I like to think of the two of them now like they were together in this old video for The Speed of the Sound of Loneliness. So beautifully intimate.

[appalachiablue]

4. That's beautiful, very special. U should post sep. & share.

Thanks!

[hippywife]

5. Okay, I will do that. Thanks! nt

[wackadoo wabbit]

6. This is such a sad, evocative song; it's just so, so depressing

I hate it and love it at the same time (but I almost never listen to it because it is just so depressing).