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

Chords with lyrics

D MajorD
Cowboys ain't easy to love
            G+G
And they're harder to hold
 A augmentedA
They'd rather give you a song
         D MajorD
Than diamonds or gold
 D MajorD
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded levis
  G+G
And each night begins a new day
    A augmentedA
If you don't understand him

And he don't die young
            D MajorD
He'll prob'ly just ride away

 D MajorD
Mamas, don't let your babies
        G+G
Grow up to be cowboys
    A augmentedA
Don't let 'em pick guitars

Or drive them old trucks
                  D MajorD
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
 D MajorD
Mamas don't let your babies
        G+G
Grow up to be cowboys
       A augmentedA
'Cos they'll never stay home

And they're always alone
            D MajorD
Even with someone they love

 E MajorE
Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms
          A augmentedA
And clear mountain mornings
 B7B7
Little warm puppies and children
         E MajorE
And girls of the night
 E MajorE
Them that don't know him

Won't like him and them that do
 A augmentedA
Sometimes won't know how to take him
      B7B7
He ain't wrong, he's just different

But his pride won't let him
                 E MajorE
Do things to make you think he's right

 E MajorE
Mamas, don't let your babies
 E7E7      A augmentedA
Grow up to be cowboys
    B7B7
Don't let 'em pick guitars

Or drive them old trucks
                  E MajorE
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
 E MajorE
Mamas don't let your babies
 E7E7      A augmentedA
Grow up to be cowboys
       B7B7
'Cos they'll never stay home

And they're always alone
            E MajorE