Cowboys

[Chorus: Jelly Roll]

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys (cowboys)

Don't let them pick guitars and drive old trucks

Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys (cowboys)

'Cause they'll never be at home and they're always feel alone

Even if they're with somebody they love

[Verse 1: Jelly Roll]

Mama raised a dreamer, southside leanin'

Antioch's codeine fiend, rose like the phoenix

Whippin' way in then winds up, I ended up in hand cuffs

Was no comedian when the judge told me to stand up

Man in the mirror clearly different appearance

Experience is make it where I feel sentencin' hearin's

But I just stay faithful, real cowboys never make it

A shame, we see what the game did to Troy Aikman

But I just kept prayin', 'cause that's what the good book said

I followed in the footsteps of a man that booked beds

My daughter and my son I pray they can be all they can be

As long as they chose not to be a cowboy like me

[Chorus: Jelly Roll]

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys (cowboys)

Don't let them pick guitars and drive old trucks

Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mama's don't let you babies grow up to be cowboys (cowboys)

'Cause they'll never be at home and they're always feel alone

Even if they're with somebody they love

[Verse 2: Struggle Jennings]

Mama raised a rambler, all on the line gambler

Slick country grammar, cocked back hammer

100 pounds in the camper, few years in the slammer

Air my dirty laundry share my life panorama

Life of a cowboy backdrop bandana

Panda, panda, I picked the load up from Atlanta

Landin' from Havana from the hands of Jorge

Foreplay for court dates what more can they say, uh

I'm the real story, the one they try and tell

Quarter in the wishin' well, fishin' for the fish scale

Residue on this scale, victory in this tale

I throw my boat off in the water watch the shit sail

Get mail spend it all runnin' from the law

Feel along with my locals 'cause my back against the wall

Times up blue lights and a loud noise

Tellin' my baby mama don't let the babies grow up to be cowboys

[Chorus]

Mama's don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys (cowboys)

Don't let them pick guitars and drive old trucks

Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such

Mama's don't let you babies grow up to be cowboys (cowboys)

'Cause they'll never be at home and they're always feel alone

Even if they're with somebody they love