Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson [Verse 1] [D] Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to [G] hold [A] They'd rather give you a song than dia[D]monds or gold Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's and each [G] night begins a new day If [A] you 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 [A] let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks |Make them be doctors and lawyers and [D] such |Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [G] cowboys |They'll [A] never stay home and they're always alone |Even with someone they [D] love [Verse 2] [A tone higher] [E7] Cowboys like smokey ol' pool rooms and clear mountain [A]mornings [B] Little warm puppies and children and girls of the [E7] night Them that don't know him won't like him And them that do [A] sometimes won't know how to take him He [B] ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him Do the things that make you think he's [E7] right |[Chorus] |[E7] Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [A] cowboys |Don't [B] let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks |Make them be doctors and lawyers [E7] and such |Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [A] cowboys |They'll [B] never stay home and they're always alone |Even with someone they [E7] love