Chords for Mama's Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys

[C] _ _ _ Mamas, don't let your babies grow [F] up to be cowboys
_ [G] Don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make them be doctors and [C] lawyers and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up [F] to be cowboys
[F] _ [G] They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with [C] someone they love
A _ cowboy ain't easy to love and he's harder [F] to hold
_ _ [G] He'd rather give you a saw than [C] silver or gold
_ Button-wise and buckles and soft-faded wranglers
And [F] each night begins a new day
[G] If you can't understand him then he don't die young
He'll probably just [C] ride away
_ _ Mamas, don't let your babies grow [F] up to be cowboys
_ [G] Don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make them be doctors [C] and lawyers and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow [F] up to be cowboys
_ [G] They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with [C] someone they love
A _ cowboy loves smoky old pool rooms and clear [F] mountain mornings
_ _ [G] Little warm puppies and children and [C] girls of the night
_ Them that don't know him won't like him
And them that [F] do sometime won't know how to take him
[G] He ain't wrong, he's just different
And his pride won't let him do things to make you [C] think he's right
_ Mamas, don't let your babies grow [F] up to be cowboys
Don't [G] let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make them be doctors and lawyers [C] and such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow [F] up to be cowboys
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