Chords for Ed Bruce - Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboy

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