Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be SOLDIERS
(sung to the tune of Mamas' don't let your babies grow up to be COWBOYS)

Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers
Don't let them drop bombs and drive in old tanks
Make 'em stay home to guard our own flanks
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

Soldiers are easy to fool and harder to hold
And they'd rather be brave, patriotic and bold
Olive drab helmets and faded fatigues
And each night begins a new day
And if you don't protect him and he do die young
He's throwing his sweet life away

Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers
Don't let them drop bombs and drive in old tanks
Make 'em stay home to guard our own flanks
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

A soldier loves smokey ole 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's not wrong, he's just different and 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 soldiers
Don't let 'em drop bombs and drive in old tanks
Make 'em stay home to guard our own flanks
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers
They'll never stay home and they're always alone
Even with someone they love

~ adaptation by Jackie Jura ~
from Mamas Don't Let Babies Grow UP to be Cowboys, Waylon Jennings/Willie Nelson