Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys
| Category: | Calm |
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| Link: | Performance Example |
| Notes: | Made famous by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, this song is both a warning and a celebration of cowboy life. |
CCowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to Fhold
GThey'd rather give you a song than diamonds or Cgold
CLonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's and Feach night begins a new day
If you Gdon't understand him and he don't die young
He'll G7probably just ride a-Cway
CMammas don't let your babies grow up to be Fcowboys
Don't Glet 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and Csuch
CMammas don't let your babies grow up to be Fcowboys
They'll Gnever stay home and they're always alone
G7Even with someone they Clove
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DCowboys like smokey ol' pool rooms and clear mountain Gmornings
ALittle warm puppies, and children, and girls of the Dnight
DThem that don't know him won't like him and them that do
Gsometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't A7wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him
Do the things to make you Athink he's Dright
DMammas don't let your babies grow up to be Gcowboys
Don't Alet 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and Dsuch
DMammas don't let your babies grow up to be Gcowboys
They'll A7never stay home and they're always alone
Even with Asomeone they Dlove
Fading
DMammas don't let your babies grow up to be Gcowboys
They'll A7never stay home and they're always alone
Even with Asomeone they Dlove
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