Folk
Mammas Dont Let Your Babies
Grow Up To Be Cowboys

Song : 
E 
Intro :
C
    
C                                                  F
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
G                                              C
They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
C                                     F
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's 
and each  night begins a new day
         G
If you don't understand him and he don't die young
                          C
He'll probably just ride away
 
Chorus :
 
C                                              F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
      G
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                   C
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
C                                            F
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
        G
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
                       C
Even with someone they love
 
a tone higher 
 
D                                            
Cowboys like smokey ol' pool rooms and clear 
           G
mountain mornings
A                                                   D                         
Little warm puppies, and children, and girls of the night
D                                                
Them that don't know him won't like him and them 
        G
that do sometimes won't know how to take him
         A
He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride 

won't let him
                                     D
Do the things to make you think he's right
 
Chorus :
 
D                                          G
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
      A
Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                   D
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such
D                                          G
Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
        A
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
                       D
Even with someone they love