[Intro] C
                                                                                    
C                                              F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
                    G7            C
Let'em be doctors and lawyers and such
                                                                                      
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Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
            G7              G
'Cause they never stay home and they're always alone
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Even with someone they love
                                                             
Cm            C/G     C                                F
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
                                                             
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They'd rather give you a song than silver or gold
Road-Star belt buckles and old faded levis
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And each night begins a new day
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If you can´t understand him, and he don't die young
                         C    G6
He'll probably just ride away

C7M                                             F
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
           G7          G
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
          G7                      C
Let'em be doctors and lawyers and such
                                                                                      
                                             F
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
           G7              G/D
Cause they never stay home and they're always alone
G                      C
Even with someone they love
                                                                                                                
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Cowboys love smoky old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
                                                                           
G7          G/D                      G7M               C
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
Them that don't know him won't like him and them that
F
Sometimes won't know how to take him
E        G7               D7M           G
He isn't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him
                                                                   
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Do things to make you think he's right

C7M                                           F                                   
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
           G7      G/D
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks
                      G7             C
Let'em be doctors and lawyers and such
                                                                             
C7M                                             F
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
            G7              G/D
'Cause they never stay home and they're always alone
G                      C
Even with someone they love