Chords for Ed Bruce - Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Cowboys

_ _ [G] _ _ _ [C] Mamas, don't let your babies grow up [F] to be cowboys
[F] _ [G] Don't let them [A] pick guitars and drive them [G] away
Make them be doctors and lawyers and [Gm] such
[C] Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to [F] be cowboys
Cause [G] they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with [C] someone they love
_ A cowboy ain't easy to love and [F] he's harder to hold
_ [G] And it means more to him to give you a song than [C] silver or gold
_ _ Budweiser buckles and soft-faded Levi's
And [F] each night begins a new day
If you [G] can't understand him and he don't die young
He'll probably just ride [C] away
_ _ Mamas, don't let your babies grow [F] up to be cowboys
_ [G] Don't let them pick guitars and drive them away
Make them be doctors and lawyers and [C] such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up [F] to be cowboys
Cause [G] they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with [C] someone they love
_ A cowboy loves smoky old pool rooms and clear [F] mountain mornings
_ _ [G] Little warm puppies and children and [C] girls of the night
_ Them that don't know him won't like him
And them that [F] do sometime won't know how to take him
He's not [G] wrong, he's just different
And his pride won't let him do things to make you [C] think he's right
_ _ Mamas, don't let your babies grow [F] up to be cowboys
Don't [G] let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
Make them be doctors and lawyers and [C] such
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up [F] to be cowboys
Cause [G] they'll never stay home and [G] they're always alone
Even with [C] someone they love
_ Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to [F] be cowboys
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