Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys chords by Ed Bruce

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Intro:
C C

Chorus:
C                     F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
   G
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
G                  C
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
C                     F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
    G
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
G           C
Even with someone they love

Verse 1:
C                       F
A cowboy ain't easy to love and he's harder to hold
   G                   C
He'd rather give you a song than silver or gold
C
Budwiser buckles and soft faded Wrangler's
  F
And each night begins a new day
    G
If you can't understand him and he don't die young
G            C
He'll probably just ride away

Chorus:
C                     F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
   G
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
G                  C
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
C                     F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
    G
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
G           C
Even with someone they love

verse 2:
C                           F
A cowboy like smoky old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
    G                     C
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
C
Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do
F
Sometimes won't know how to take him
F    G
He ain't wrong, he's just different and his pride won't let him
G                C
Do things to make you think he's right

Chorus:
C                     F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
   G
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
G                  C
Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
C                     F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys