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 - Live from Austin, TX

Feb 2006

1. Bob Wills Is Still King
2. Suspicious Minds
3. Honky Tonk Angeles
4. I’m A Ramblin’ Man
5. Rainy Day Woman
6. America
7. I May Be Used (But Baby I Ain’t Used Up)
8. Amanda
9. Me And Bobby McGee
10. Trouble Man
11. Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
12. Good Ol’ Boys (Theme From The Dukes Of Hazzard)
13. You Asked Me To
14. Couple More Years
15. Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
16. Good Hearted Woman
17. I’ve Always Been Crazy
18. Luckenbach, Texas (Back To The Basics Of Love)
19. I Ain’t Living Long Like This