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