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Cowboys ain't easy to love and 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 and he don't die young
He'll probably 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
'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
Cowboys like smoky 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
'Cause they'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love
- Album:
- Ghosts of Highway 20
- Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone
- Miscellaneous
- Blessed
- West
- Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
- Little Honey
- Imus Ranch Record
- Side Of The Road (Live, Kpfk Studios La. Feb 26 1989)...
- The Ghosts of Highway 20
- Woody Guthrie: At 100! (Live At The Kennedy Center)
- TRUE BLOOD: Music from the HBO® Original Series
- Live On Texas Music, Austin, Tx, 4th October 1981...
- Lucinda Williams (Deluxe)
- Live @ The Fillmore
- Car Wheels On A Gravel Road (Deluxe Edition)
- Live @ The Fillmore (Jewel Packaging)
- iTunes Live: SXSW
- Live @ The Fillmore Exclusive EP
- The Bottom Line Archive: In Their Own Words, Vol. 1 (Live)