Name: Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Duration: P00H02M37S
Description: Originally performed by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings

Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

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Originally performed by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings

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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 levis,
And each night begins a new day.
If you don't understand him, an' he don't die young,
He'll prob'ly just ride away.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms
And clear mountain mornings
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night.
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.

Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

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from America's Sweetheart, released January 5, 2016
Written by Ed Bruce, Patsy Bruce. © 2016 Sony/ATV (Tree Publishing Co., Inc.)

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Known mononymously as IMAJ, America’s Sweetheart is a multi-talented Country singer-songwriter, speaker, and humanitarian. IMAJ’s voice is classic and pure [“like an angel” —Billy Ray Cyrus] with a special place in her heart for legends like Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash & Charley Pride. Her goal is to use her platform as a Country artist to inspire world peace. ... more

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