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

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

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, and he don't die young
He'll probably just ride away

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

Cowboys like smoky 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

[repeat chorus]

Willie Nelson - Songs for Tsunami Relief: Austin to South Asia

Apr 2005

1. Love Be Heard
2. Mary
3. Farther Along/All Just To Get To You
4. Boxcars
5. Everybody Loves Me
6. Break This Time
7. My Mathematical Mind
8. Everything Hits At Once
9. What I Deserve
10. Travelin' Soldier
11. What Would Willie Do?
12. Living In The Promiseland
13. Whiskey River
14. Still Is Still Moving To Me
15. Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
16. The Great Divide
17. Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
18. Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground