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• Ned Kelly from San Francisco, CaI read somewhere that "An Angel from Montgomery" is about the Governor from Montgomery, Alabama coming to go to a Prison and pardon a person from a death sentence since he was the only person who could accomplish that. So he was named "An Angel from Montgomery" because that was the Prisoners only hope of living.
• Chris from Little RockIt's about middle age? I was convinced its about a old woman on her deathbed on life support and ready for it to be over to be made an angel.
  "Flies in the kitchen, I can hear buzzing. Ain't done nothing since I woke today"
  That line sounds like a dying or dead person then when you have the old woman recounting her life saying make me angel. Sounds like she's dead or dying
• Bob from PortlandReal depressing song!
• Sara From Washington from WashingtonWhy are some versions of the song : " if dreams were THUNDER, and LIGHTNING were desire" ? I see so many pages that are quoting the lyrics to his song but incorrectly it seems? and the remakes seem to sing it backwards as well. Just curious!
• Mary M from MichiganJohn Prine, I am an old woman named after my mother
  My old man is another child that's grown old
  If dreams were lightning, thunder were desire
  This old house would have burnt 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 living is just a hard way to go
  
  When I was a young girl well, I had me a cowboy
  He weren't much to look at, just free rambling man
  But that was a long time and no matter how I try
  The years just flow 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 living is just a hard way to go
  
  There's flies in the kitchen I can hear 'em there buzzing
  And I ain't done nothing since I woke up today
  How the hell can a person go to work in the morning
  And 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 living is just a hard way to Go
• Joe Cortez from Delaware, UsaIt is sad that Tara Reade is not believed.
• Bill from Us"how the hell can a person,
  go to work in the morning,
  come home in the evening
  and have nothing to say?
  
  Man that man could write some songs. You can see them, you can feel the characters, they are your relatives!
  If he didn't put them to tunes you can't stop humming, they are still great poetry.
  THAT is a songwriter.
• Mavis from Upper Great LakesRest In Peace, John Prine. Thank you for giving us this evocative song.

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