Information: Following conventional lyric notation practice, words are broken into syllables to interpret the phrasing of the lyrics. Each word syllable in the lyrics below represents a note on the vocal part of this arrangement. A hyphen '-' or trailing hyphens following a word syllable indicates that the word syllable is extended over more than one note. ============================= Title:Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys Key Signature:E Major Artist:Waylon Jennings Songwriters:Bruce/Bruce Copyright:Warner Chappell Music Ltd HR:MN:SC Total Running Time:00:04:26 ============================= INTRO . . . . . . . . . . Cow-boys ain't eas-y to love and they're har-der to hold
They'd rat-her give you a song than sil-ver or gold -
Lone-star belt buck-les and old fad-ed Le-vis and each night be-gins a new day
and if you don't un-der-stand him and he don't die young, He'll probab-ly just ride a-way
Mam-ma's don't let your ba-bies grow up to be cow-boys Don't let 'em pick gui-tars
and drive them old trucks Make 'em be Doc-tors and Law-yers and such
Mam-ma's don't let your ba-bies grow up to be cow-boys They'll nev-er stay home,
and they're al-ways a-lone, E-ven with some-one they love
Cow-boys like smok-y 'ole pool rooms and clear moun-tain morn-ings
They don't want pup-pies and chil-dren and girls of the night
Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do some-times won't know just how to take him
He ain't wrong, he's just dif-f'rent his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
Mam-ma's don't let your ba-bies grow up to be cow-boys Don't let 'em pick gui-tars
and drive them old trucks Make 'em be Doc-tors and Law-yers and such
Mam-ma's don't let your ba-bies grow up to be cow-boys They'll nev-er stay home,
and they're al-ways a-lone, E-ven with some-one they love
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Mam-ma's don't let your ba-bies grow up to be cow-boys Don't let 'em pick gui-tars
and drive them old trucks Make 'em be Doc-tors and Law-yers and such
Mam-ma's don't let your ba-bies grow up to be cow-boys They'll nev-er stay home,
and they're al-ways a-lone, E-ven with some-one they love
They'll nev-er stay home, and they're al-ways a-lone,