Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys — Waylon Jennings
Chords and lyrics for Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys by Waylon Jennings (key of D).
Verse 1
[D]Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to [G]hold
[A7]They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or [D]gold
[D]Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis and
[G]each night begins a new day
If you [A7]don't understand him and he don't die young
he'll probably just ride [D]away
Chorus
[D]Mammas don't let your Babies grow up to be [G]Cowboys
Don't [A7]let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and [D]such
[D]Mammas don't let your Babies grow up to be [G]Cowboys
Cause they [A7]never stay home and they're always alone
even with someone they [D]love
Verse 2
[E]Cowboys like smoky old pool rooms and clear mountain [A]mornings
[B7]Little warm puppies and children and girls of the [E]night
[E]Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do
[A]sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't [B7]wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him
do things to make you think he's [E]right
Chorus
[E]Mammas don't let your Babies grow up to be [A]Cowboys
Don't [B7]let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and [E]such
[E]Mammas don't let your Babies grow up to be [A]Cowboys
Cause they [B7]never stay home and they're always alone
even with someone they [E]love
[E]Mammas don't let your Babies grow up to be [A]Cowboys
Don't [B7]let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
(fade out)
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