MAMMAS DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS
TAKE IT OFF THE SCREEN
Print the sheet for the piano stand, or load the MIDI into any app and practise at your own tempo.
HOW TO PLAY
- 1Put your right thumb on middle C. Most beginner songs stay under five fingers — you never move your hand.
- 2Set the speed down and turn CLICK on. Press each key exactly when the note reaches the line.
- 3Loop the bar that keeps breaking until it feels easy, then add the left hand and take the speed back up.
LYRICS
(G)Mam mas don’t let your ba bies grow (G7)up to be (C)cow boys.
Don’t (D7)let ’em pick gui tars and drive them old trucks.
Make ’em be doc tors and law yers and (G)such.
Mam mas don’t let your ba bies grow (G7)up to be (C)cow boys
’cause they’ll (D7)nev er stay home and they’re al ways a lone,
e ven with some one they (G)love.
A (G)cow boy ain’t eas y to (G7)love and he’s hard er to (C)hold, ings,
and it means (D7)more to him to give you a song dren than sil ver or (G)gold.
(G)Bud wei ser buck les and (G7)soft fad ed Le vis and (C)each night be gins a new day.
him.
He’s If you (D7)can’t un der stand him and he don’t die young, him he’ll prob a bly just ride a (G)way.
(G)Mam mas don’t let your ba bies grow (G7)up to be (C)cow boys.
Don’t (D7)let ’em pick gui tars and drive them old trucks.
Make ’em be doc tors and law yers and (G)such.
Mam mas don’t let your ba bies grow (G7)up to be (C)cow boys
’cause they’ll (D7)nev er stay home and they’re al ways a lone,
e ven with some one they (G)love.
A (G)cow boy loves smok y old (G7)pool rooms and clear moun tain (C)hold, ings,
and it means (D7)lit tle warm to pup pies and song dren and girls of the (G)night.
(G)Them that don’t know him won’t (G7)like him and them that do (C)some times won’t know how to day.
him.
He’s If you (D7)wrong, he’s just dif f’rent, and his pride won’t young, him do things to make you think he’s (G)right.
SONG INFO
- Level
- 4 of 5
- Key
- G
- Tempo
- 150 BPM
- Plays
- 2
- Chords
- C D7 G G7
- Category
- Pop
- Artist
- Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson