Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys lyrics and chords
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Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys lyrics and chords are intended for your personal use, it's a Willie Nelson classic. Add it to your personal song book, it has simple chords
Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
recorded by Willie Nelson
written by Ed and Patsy Bruce
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Mama don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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Don't let them pick guitars and drive in old trucks
C
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
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Mama 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
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
G7C
and they'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis
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And each night begins a new day
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and if you don't understand him and he don't die young
C
he'll probably just ride away
Repeat chorus
F
A cowboy loves smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
G7C
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
Them that don't know him won't like him
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And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
G7
He's not wrong he's just different and his pride won't let him
C
Do things to make you think he's right
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When Ed and Patsy Bruce wrote this song and had Willie Nelson to record it, that was a good decision. It became a monster hit. It's a song that you can play and sing, the chords are not difficult. Look in Pure Country Music for a good selection of Willie's cds. Print Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys lyrics and chords, it will be a good addition to your song book.