Mammas Don't Let Your
Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Written by Ed and Patsy
Bruce Recorded by many country singers
Moderate
Country Waltz 3/4 timing
C F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
G7
Don't let ‘em pick guitars and drive in old trucks
C
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
G7
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
C
Even with someone they love
F
A cowboy ain't easy to
love and he’s harder to hold
G7
C
He'd rather give you a
song than silver or gold
Budweiser buckles and old
faded Levis
F
And each night begins a
new day
G7
And if you can't
understand him and he don't die young
C
He'll probably just ride
away
C F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
G7
Don't let ‘em pick guitars and drive in old trucks
C
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
G7
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
C
Even with someone they love
F
A cowboy loves smokey old
pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
G7
C
Little warm puppies and
children and girls of the night
Them that don't know him
won't like him
F
And them that do sometimes
won't know how to take him
G7
He's ain’t wrong he's just
different and his pride won't let him
C
Do things to make you
think he's right
C F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
G7
Don't let ‘em pick guitars and drive in old trucks
C
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
G7
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
C
Even with someone they love
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