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Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

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Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - Willie Nelson
Authors Note:
For extra authenticity, alternate between the root note and the perfect fifth on the 1 counts. 
For example:
1     2           3
G     strum - a - strum - a
1     2           3
D     strum - a - strum - a
or
1     2           3
D     strum - a - strum - a
1     2           3
A     strum - a - strum - a
[Chorus]
                                          G
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
       A
Don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                      D
Make them be doctors and lawyers and such
                                           G
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
         A
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
                        D
Even with someone they love
[Verse 1]
D                                                    G
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
A                                                  D
They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or gold
                                               G
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's and each night begins a new day
             A
If you don't understand him and he don't die young
                          D
He'll probably just ride away
[Chorus]
D                                         G
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
       A
Don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                      D
Make them be doctors and lawyers and such
                                          G
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
         A
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
                       D
Even with someone they love
[Verse 2]
E                                                     A
Cowboys like smokey ol' pool rooms and clear mountain mornings
B                                                  E
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night
Them that don't know him won't like him
                  A
And them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
    B
He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him
                                      E
Do the things to make you think he's right
[Chorus]
E                                         A
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
      B
Don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                     E
Make them be doctors and lawyers and such
                                           A
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
      B
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
                     E
Even with someone they love
E                                         A
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys
      B
Don't let them pick guitars and drive them old trucks
                                     E
Make them be doctors and lawyers and such
(Fade out)

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Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys - Willie Nelson
Authors Note:
For extra authenticity, alternate between the root note and the perfect fifth on the 1 counts. 
For example:
1     2           3
G     strum - a - strum - a
1     2           3
D     strum - a - strum - a
or
1     2           3
D     strum - a - strum - a
1     2           3
A     strum - a - strum - a
[Chorus]
[Verse 1]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
Them that don't know him won't like him
[Chorus]
(Fade out)

Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys Chords by Willie Nelson

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