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


        [Verse 1]
        G                                                
        Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to 
    C
hold
        D                                                  
        They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
G
                                                       
        Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's and 
C
each night begins a new day
                     D
        If you don't understand him and he don't die young
                                  G
        He'll probably just ride away

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


        [Verse 2]
        A                                            
        Cowboys like smokey ol' pool rooms and clear 
         D
mountain mornings
         E                                                
        Little warm puppies and children and girls of the 
 A
night

        Them that don't know him won't like him
                          D
        And them that do sometimes won't know how to take 
him
            E
        He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride 
won't let him
                                                A
        Do the things that make you think he's right


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

        (Repeat Chorus and Fade)