Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson - Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys

Waylon Arnold Jennings (June 15, 1937 February 13, 2002) was an influential American country music singer and musician.
A series of duet albums with Willie Nelson in the late 1970s culminated in the 1978 crossover hit, "Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys".

Willie Hugh Nelson (born April 30, 1933) is an American country singer-songwriter, author, poet and actor.
Along with Nelson, Waylon Jennings was also achieving success in country music in the early 1970s, and the pair were soon combined into a genre called outlaw country ("outlaw" because it did not conform to Nashville standards).

"Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys" is a country music song written by Ed Bruce and Patsy Bruce. It was made famous by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, whose version was first released on their 1978 album Waylon & Willie. The song's lyrics advise mothers to raise their children as doctors or lawyers rather than cowboys, who seem to be "always alone."

The Waylon & Willie version peaked at No. 1 in March 1978, spending four weeks atop the Billboard magazine Hot Country Singles chart.

Lyrics:
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

Mamas 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

Mamas 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 mornings
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

Mamas 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

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[OddReality94]

I actually first heard this song in GTA San Andreas... And it's pure awesomeness. :D

[alicehintonx]

grand theft auto san andreas reccomended this song to me..

[POBulkhead]

When I was in the Navy we used to sing; "Mama don't your babies grow up to be babies."

[cowboy4everify]

my babies grew up to be cowboys and hunters

[DucksOnQuack037]

U know why I'm here. GTA San Andreas

[katiejanemosley]

@kimberlyrae1969 no shit!

[kimberlyrae1969]

It would have been cool to smoke a bowl with these cats, then listen to them create this genius..

[onceANexile]

I remember the first time I heard this song....I was baby-sitting 300 head south of Roaring Springs, and east of Fields, Oregon....I had 4 horses and a dog for Old Ronald Mclean...About 6:30, or so, I'd start to get a radio-station out of S. California...I wrote that DJ from a back-page of a paperback to request it, so I could hear it just one more time...That was a longtime ago...bb

[MrMelon049]

Better still, Mama's don't your babies grow up to be assholes....

[MrPaulware]

I'm a city boy but how I love this song. I just close my eyes and see my mum saying "you don't want to be X, Y or Z when you grow up"

[hallybarton]

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