Mama's Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To..

by The Highwaymen

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Play this song on your G or A harmonica

Chorus

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Mam-mas, don't let your b-a-b-ies 

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grow up to be cow-boys,

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Don't let them pick gui-tars 

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and drive them old trucks.

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Let them be doc-tors and law-yers and such.

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Mam-mas, don't let your b-a-bies 

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grow up to be cow-boys.

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'Cause they'll nev-er stay home

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and they're al-ways a-l-o-ne

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e-ven with some-one they l-o-ve.

verse 1

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Cow-boys ain't eas-y to love,

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and they're hard-er to ho-ld.

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They'd rath-er give you a song

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than dia-monds or gold,

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Lone Star belt buck-les,

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and old, fad-ed Le-vis;

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And each night be-gins a new day.

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If you don't un-der-stand him

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and he don't die young,

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he'll prob-a-bly just r-ide  a-way