{"id":2156,"date":"2021-10-03T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=2156"},"modified":"2025-11-21T06:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T06:09:31","slug":"mamas-dont-let-your-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/mamas-dont-let-your-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamas, Don’t let Babies … Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"

as sung by Willie Nelson – Key of D<\/span><\/p>\n

 {title: Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys}\r\n{key: C}\r\n{artist: Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson }\r\n{c:  } \r\n[C] Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to [F] hold\r\n[G] They'd rather give you a song than diamonds or [C] gold\r\n[C] Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's and [F] each night begins a new day\r\nIf you [G] don't understand him and he don't die young\r\nHe'll [G7] probably just ride a-[C]way \r\n \r\n[C] Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [F] cowboys\r\nDon't [G] let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks\r\nLet 'em be doctors and lawyers and [C] such\r\n[C] Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [F] cowboys\r\nThey'll [G] never stay home and they're always alone\r\n[G7] Even with someone they [C] love \r\n{c: Key Change} \r\n[D] Cowboys like smokey ol' pool rooms and clear mountain [G] mornings\r\n[A] Little warm puppies, and children, and girls of the [D] night\r\n[D] Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do \r\n[G] sometimes won't know how to take him\r\nHe ain't [A7] wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him\r\nDo the things to make you [A] think he's [D] right\r\n \r\n[D] Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [G] cowboys\r\nDon't [A] let 'em pick guitars and drive them old trucks\r\nLet 'em be doctors and lawyers and [D] such\r\n[D] Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [G] cowboys\r\nThey'll [A7] never stay home and they're always alone\r\nEven with [A] someone they [D] love\r\n{c:Fading}\r\n[D] Mammas don't let your babies grow up to be [G] cowboys\r\nThey'll [A7] never stay home and they're always alone\r\nEven with [A] someone they [D] love<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
as sung by Willie Nelson – Key of D {title: Mammas Dont Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys} {key: C} {artist: Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson } {c: } [C] Cowboys ain’t easy to love and they’re harder to [F] hold [G] They’d rather give you a song … CLICK TO VIEW SONGMamas, Don’t let Babies … Cowboys<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,13,56,116,117,123,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-country-western","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}