Tom: C C F Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys G7 Don't let them pick guitars and drive in old trucks C Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such F Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys G7 They'll never stay home and they're always alone C Even with someone they love F Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold G7 C And they'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold Lone Star belt buckles and old faded Levis F And each night begins a new day G7 And if you don't understand him and he don't die young C He'll probably just ride away F A cowboy loves smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings G7 C Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night Them that don't know him won't like him F And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him G7 He's not wrong he's just different and his pride won't let him C Do things to make you think he's right