Angel From Montgomery

Written by John Prine

Key of D · Chords: I IV V VII

Chorus

     D     C          G          D
Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery
     D    C         G      D
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
     D       C             G           D
Just give me one thing one thing I can hold on to
   D          C                A          D
To believe in this livin’ just a hard way to go

Verse 1

  D     G       D           G
I am an old man named after my father
    D       G       A           D
Now lady is another child who’s grown old
   D           G       D              G
If dreams were thunder and lightening was desire
     D                    G           A      D
This old house would have burned down a long time ago

Verse 2

     D     G               D     G
When I was a young man now I was a cowboy
  D               G           A      D
I weren’t much to look at but a free ramblin’ man
    D               G        D             G
But that was a long time and no matter how much I try
      D     G                 A        D
Those years just flow by like a broken down dam.

Verse 3

        D        G           D          G
There’s flies in the kitchen Lord I can hear’em buzzin’
      D    G               A    D
Ain’t done nothin’ since I woke up today
    D              G      D             G
How the hell can a person go to work in the mornin’
     D           G                A       D
Come home in the evenin’ and have nothin’ to say?