Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys Lyrics

Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold.
They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold.
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded levis,
And each night begins a new day.
If you don't understand him, an' he don't die young,
He'll prob'ly just ride away.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings,
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night.
Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do,
Sometimes won't know how to take him.
He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him,
Do things to make you think he's right.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

Waylon Jennings - Nashville Rebel

Sep 2006

1. Jole Blon (single version)
2. My Baby Walks All Over Me
3. That's The Chance I'll Have To Take
4. Stop The World (And Let Me Off)
5. Anita, You're Dreaming
6. Time To Bum Again
7. For Lovin' Me
8. Green River
9. Nashville Rebel
10. Mental Revenge
11. Love Of The Common People
12. The Chokin' Kind
13. Walk On Out Of My Mind
14. I Got You
15. Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line
16. Yours Love
17. Just To Satisfy You
18. Something's Wrong In California
19. Brown Eyed Handsome Man
20. Cedartown, Georgia
21. I Ain't The One
22. Singer Of Sad Songs
23. It's Sure Been Fun
24. Six White Horses
25. People In Dallas Got Hair
26. The Taker
27. Mississippi Woman
28. Lovin' Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)
29. Tulsa
30. Sweet Dream Woman
31. Ladies Love Outlaws
32. Under Your Spell Again
33. Lonesome, On'ry And Mean
34. Pretend I Never Happened
35. You Can Have Her
36. Honky Tonk Heroes
37. Black Rose
38. We Had It All
39. You Ask Me To
40. This Time
41. It's Not Supposed To Be That Way
42. Slow Rollin' Low
43. I'm A Ramblin' Man
44. Rainy Day Woman
45. Amanda
46. Bob Wills Is Still The King
47. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
48. Waymore's Blues
49. The Door Is Always Open
50. Dreaming My Dreams With You
51. T For Texas (Live)
52. Freedom To Stay
53. Good Hearted Woman (Live Version)
54. Suspicious Minds
55. Can't You See
56. Are You Ready For The Country
57. MacArthur Park (Revisited)
58. Jack-A-Diamonds
59. Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)
60. Brand New Goodbye Song
61. The Wurlitzer Prize (I Don't Want To Get Over You)
62. Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
63. There Ain't No Good Chain Gang
64. I've Always Been Crazy
65. Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand
66. The Greatest Cowboy Of Them All
67. Come With Me
68. I Ain't Living Long Like This
69. Clyde
70. Theme From The Dukes Of Hazzard (Good Ol' Boys)
71. Storms Never Last
72. Shine
73. Just To Satisfy You
74. Women Do Know How To Carry On
75. The Dock Of The Bay
76. Lucille (You Won't Do Your Daddy's Will)
77. Breakin' Down
78. Take It To The Limit
79. The Conversation
80. I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain't Used Up
81. Never Could Toe The Mark
82. America
83. Waltz Me To Heaven
84. Highwayman
85. Drinkin' And Dreamin'
86. Working Without A Net
87. Will The Wolf Survive
88. What You'll Do When I'm Gone
89. Rose In Paradise
90. Rough And Rowdy Days
91. Wrong
92. I Do Believe