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Angels From Montgomery

Released by John Denver in 1973
From the Album: Farewell Andromeda |

This version of Angels From Montgomery was released by John Denver in 1973.

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I am an old woman, named after my mother, my old man is another child that’s grown old.
If dreams were lightning, and 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, I had me a cowboy.
He weren’t much to look at, just a 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 in 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,
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.
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.


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John Denver has released many songs over the years besides Angels From Montgomery. John Denver released songs from 1969 to 1998 spanning across albums like Rhymes And Reasons, Take Me To Tomorrow, Whose Garden Was This?, Poems, Prayers And Promises, Aerie, Rocky Mountain High, Farewell Andromeda, Back Home Again, Rocky Mountain Christmas, An Evening With John Denver, Windsong, Spirit, I Want To Live, A Christmas Together, John Denver, Autograph, Some Days Are Diamonds, Seasons Of The Heart, Rocky Mountain Holiday, It's About Time, Dreamland Express, One World, Higher Ground, The Flower That Shattered The Stone, Christmas, Like A Lullaby, Different Directions, All Aboard!, and Forever, John. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by John Denver.

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Angels From Montgomery, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1973 song by John Denver. Some of the lyrics to Angels From Montgomery have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only John Denver and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Angels From Montgomery if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Angels From Montgomery" means the words set to the music of Angels From Montgomery, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by John Denver. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Angels From Montgomery and the lyrics to Angels From Montgomery are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of John Denver who came here looking just for the lyrics to Angels From Montgomery, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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