Willie Nelson - Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys lyrics

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br />

Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks<br />

Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such<br />

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br />

They'll never stay home and they're always alone<br />

Even with someone they love<br />

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Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold<br />

And they'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold<br />

Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levis<br />

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And each night begins a new day<br />

And if you don't understand him and he don't die young<br />

You'll probably just ride away<br />

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br />

Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks<br />

Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such<br />

<br />

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br />

They'll never stay home and they're always alone<br />

Even with someone they love<br />

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Cowboys like smoky old pool rooms, clear mountain mornings<br />

Little warm puppies and children, girls of the night<br />

And them that don't know him won't like him and them that do<br />

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Sometimes won't know how to take him<br />

He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him<br />

Do things to make you think he's right<br />

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br />

Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks<br />

Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such<br />

<br />

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br />

They'll never stay home and they're always alone<br />

Even with someone they love<br />

<br />

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br />

Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks<br />

Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such<br />

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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys<br /><br />