Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys chords by
Waylon Jennings
Willie Nelson

1978Country844 views

Key: D major•

Verse 1

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D

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D

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Cowboys ain't easy to love

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G

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and they're harder to hold

A

A

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They'd rather give you a song

D

D

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than diamonds or gold

Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levis

G

G

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And each night begins a new day

A

A

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If you don't understand him,

and he don't die young

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D

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He'll probably just ride away

Chorus 1

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D

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up

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G

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to be cowboys

A

A

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Don't let 'em pick guitars

or drive them old trucks

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D

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Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up

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G

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to be cowboys

A

A

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'Cause they'll never stay home

and they're always alone

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D

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Even with someone they love

Verse 2

E

E

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Cowboys like smoky old pool rooms

A

A

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and clear mountain mornings

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B

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Little warm puppies and children

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and girls of the night

Them that don't know him

won't like him and them that do

A

A

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Sometimes won't know how to take him

B

B

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He ain't wrong, he's just different

but his pride won't let him

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E

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Do things to make you think he's right

Chorus 2

E

E

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up

A

A

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to be cowboys

B

B

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Don't let 'em pick guitars

or drive them old trucks

E

E

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Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up

A

A

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to be cowboys

B

B

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'Cause they'll never stay home

and they're always alone

E

E

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Even with someone they love

[Repead and fade]

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