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1. 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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R: 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,

   wa'n'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.
R:

2. There's flies in the kitchen, I can hear all their buzzin'
   but I ain't done nothin' since I woke up today.
   I am kind of person goes to work in the morning
   come home in the evenin' and have nothin' to say.
R:

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   To believe in this living is just a hard way to go.