[00:05.59]Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
[00:10.07]Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
[00:17.87]Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
[00:22.52]Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
[00:29.99]'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
[00:37.67]Even with someone they love.
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[00:45.46]Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
[00:50.51]And they'd rather give you a song then diamonds or gold
[00:59.82]Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's each night begins a new day
[01:11.54]And if you don't understand him and he don't die young
[01:17.46]He'll probly just ride away
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[01:23.65]Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
[01:32.11]Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
[01:38.52]Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
[01:44.69]Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
[01:52.13]'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
[01:57.66]Even with someone they love.
[02:05.49]Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings,
[02:14.28]Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night.
[02:23.57]Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do,
[02:27.89]Sometimes won't know how to take him.
[02:32.66]He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him,
[02:37.08]Do things to make you think he's right.
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[02:43.61]Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
[02:50.48]Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
[02:57.80]Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
[03:04.28]Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
[03:10.69]'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
[03:14.93]Even with someone they love.