歌词与中文翻译
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
妈妈，别让你的孩子长大成为牛仔
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
别让他们弹奏吉他亦或是驾驶他们的旧卡车
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
让他们成为医生和律师之流吧
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
妈妈，别让你的孩子长大成为牛仔
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
因为他们永远不会呆在家里，总是独自一人
Even with someone they love.
即使与他人坠入爱河
Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're harder to hold
牛仔们从不轻易去爱并被人掌握
And they'd rather give you a song than silver or gold
他们宁愿赠与你美妙的歌声而非钻石或黄金
Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi's each night begins a new day
每晚紧扣孤星皮带扣，穿着旧褪色的里维斯开始新的一天
And if you can't understand him and he don't die young
就算你不理解他，他也不会早早夭折
He'll probly just ride away
他可能只是绝尘而去
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
妈妈，别让你的孩子长大成为牛仔
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
别让他们弹奏吉他亦或是驾驶他们的旧卡车
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
让他们成为医生和律师之流吧
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
妈妈，别让你的孩子长大成为牛仔
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
因为他们永远不会呆在家里，总是独自一人
Even with someone they love.
即使与他人坠入爱河
Cowboys like smokey old pool rooms and clear mountain mornings,
牛仔喜欢有浴缸的房间，大山的灿烂清晨
Little warm puppies and children and girls of the night.
可爱娇小的小狗，孩子和夜晚的姑娘们
Them that don't know him won't like him and them that do,
那些因不了解而不会喜欢他
Sometimes won't know how to take him.
不知道该如何对付他的人啊
He ain't wrong, he's just different but his pride won't let him,
他并无过错，只是特立独行
Do things to make you think he's right.
他的骄傲不允许自己去迎合他人
Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
妈妈，别让你的孩子长大成为牛仔
Don't let 'em pick guitars or drive them old trucks.
别让他们弹奏吉他亦或是驾驶他们的旧卡车
Let 'em be doctors and lawyers and such.
让他们成为医生和律师之流吧
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys.
妈妈，别让你的孩子长大成为牛仔
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
因为他们永远不会呆在家里，总是独自一人
Even with someone they love.
即使与他人坠入爱河