Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys chords by Cody Johnson

Intro:

D

Verse 1:
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Cowboys ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to hold
         A                                   D
They’d rather give you a song than silver or gold
D                                               G
Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levi’s and each night begins a new day
       A
If you don’t understand him and he don’t die young
                          D
He’ll probably just ride away

Chorus:
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So Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
      A
Don’t let ‘em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                    D
Make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such
D                                         G
Mamas don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
               A
‘Cause they’ll never stay home and they’re always alone
                       D
Even with someone they love

Verse 2:
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Cowboys loves smokey ol’ pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
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Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
D
Them that don’t know him won’t like him and them that do
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Sometimes won’t know how to take him
         A
It ain’t wrong, it’s just different,
                                                             D
and his pride won’t let him do things to make you think he’s right

Chorus:
D                                         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
Make ‘em be doctors and lawyers and such
D                                          G       N.C.
Mamas don’t let your cowboys grow up to be babies, I meant what I said
               A
‘Cause they’ll never stay home and they’re always alone
                       D
Even with someone they love

Outro:
            A
Yea they’ll never stay home and they’re always alone
                       D
Even with someone they love

play hard strums, let D fade:
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