Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys Chords by Waylon Jennings  &  Willie Nelson

[Start]

[Verse]
D                                               G      
■ Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
A                                    D               
■ They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
                                     G     
Lone star belt buckles and old faded Levi's
               G               
And each night begins a new day
             A7                                   
If you don't understand him and he don't die young
               D             
He'll probably just ride away


[Chorus]
                            G                    
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
A                                                     
■ Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                   D   
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
                                       G         
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
A                                                      
'cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
A7                D        
Even with someone they love


[Verse]
E                                           E7       A       
Cowboys like smokey old poolrooms and clear mountain mornings
B                                             E        
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
                         E             
Them that don't know him won't like him
              A                                      
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
B                                 
He ain't wrong he's just different
                                                        E         
But his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right


[Chorus]
                                       E7 A      
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
B                                             B7    
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                   E   
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
E                                                
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
A              B                           B7          
'cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
                       E   
Even with someone they love


[Outro]
                                          A      
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
          N.C.                                      
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
N.C.              
Let 'em be doctors