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 

And they'd rather give you a song then diamonds or gold 
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's 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 moringin's 
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 babies grow up to be cowboys 
They'll never stay home and they're always alone 
Even with someone they love 
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