作词 : Bruce, Bruce

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

Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks

Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

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

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

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

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

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

And if you don't understand him and he don't die young

He'll probly just ride away

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

Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks

Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

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

They'll never stay home and they're always alone

Even with someone they love

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms
And clear mountian moringings

Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night

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

He ain't wrong he's just different
But his pride won't let him do things
To make you think he's right

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

Don't let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks

Make 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

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

They'll never stay home and they're always alone

Even with someone they love