Mama 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
Mama don`t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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
And they`d rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi`s each night begins a new day
And if you don`t understand him and he don`t die young
He`ll probly just ride away
Mama 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
Mama don`t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They`ll never stay home and they`re always alone
Even with someone they love
Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountian moringin`s
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
And 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
Mama 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
Mama don`t let your babies grow up to be cowboys
They`ll never stay home and they`re always alone
Even with someone they love
Mama 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