Written by Ed Bruce/Patsy Bruce
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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
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Let'em be doctors and lawyers and such
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Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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'Cause they never stay home and they're always alone
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Even with someone they love
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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 canīt understand him, and he don't die young
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He'll probably just ride away
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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
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Let'em be doctors and lawyers and such
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Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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Cause they never stay home and they're always alone
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Even with someone they love
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Cowboys love smoky old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
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Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
Them that don't know him won't like him and them that
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Sometimes won't know how to take him
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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
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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
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Let'em be doctors and lawyers and such
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Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
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'Cause they never stay home and they're always alone
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Even with someone they love
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