Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys

"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
Single by Ed Bruce
from the album Ed Bruce
B-side"It's Not What She's Done (It's What You Didn't Do)"[1]
ReleasedNovember 15, 1975
Genre
Length3:08
LabelUnited Artists #732
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Larry Butler[2]
Ed Bruce singles chronology
"July, You're a Woman"
(1973) 		"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
(1975) 		"The Littlest Cowboy Rides Again"
(1976)

"Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" is a country music song first recorded by Ed Bruce, written by him and his wife Patsy Bruce. His version of the song appears on his 1976 self-titled album for United Artists Records. In late 1975 and early 1976, Bruce's rendition of the song went to number 15 on the Hot Country Singles charts. This song was featured on Chris LeDoux's album released January 20, 1976, Songbook of the American West.

Members of the Western Writers of America chose the song as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.[3]

  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2008). Hot Country Songs 1944 to 2008. Record Research, Inc. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-89820-177-2.
  2. ^ Billboard. 1976-10-09. p. 43. Retrieved 2016-10-10.
  3. ^ Western Writers of America (2010). "The Top 100 Western Songs". American Cowboy. Archived from the original on 19 October 2010.