Mammas Don't let your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys - Waylon Jennings

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Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to 
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hold

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They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or 
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gold

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Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's and 
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each night begins a new day

If you 
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don't understand him and he don't die young, he'll probably just ride a
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way

	
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Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be 
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cowboys

	Don't 
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let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks. Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and 
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such

	
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Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be 
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cowboys

	They'll 
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never stay home and they're always alone, even with someone they 
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love

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Cowboys like smokey ol' pool rooms and clear mountain 
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mornings

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Little warm puppies, and children, and girls of the 
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night

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Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do 
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sometimes won't know how to take him

He ain't 
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wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him do the things to make you think he's 
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right