Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys (Waylon & Willie)

 

      在二十世纪七十年代初期，乡村音乐陷入了一个低潮，在美国田纳西州的纳什维尔，乡村歌曲就像是流水线上的罐头一样被制作出来，它们千篇一律，毫无创新。就 在这时候，维隆·杰宁斯（Waylon Jennings）和威利·纳尔逊（Willie Nelson），这2位当时并不走红的歌手发起了一场“亡命徒”运动，他们来到德克萨斯的拉肯巴赫，自己制作歌曲发行，力图回归到 传统中去，打破了纳什维尔商业化的音乐制作模式。他们的歌曲开创了一个新的时代，把乡村音乐从死气沉沉中挽救了出来，成为七十年代最有影响力的乡村歌手。

      Waylon Jennings和Willie Nelson两人互为死党，一起组团所做出的专辑《Waylon & Willie》，其带点辛酸又有点阿甘精神的音乐，则是一举冲上乡村音乐排行榜冠军。

 

歌曲:Mammas, Don'T Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
歌手:Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
专辑:Legend: The Best Of Willie Nelson

Cowboys ain't easy to love and they're 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, an' he don't die young,
He'll prob'ly 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.
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

Cowboys like smokey 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.
'Cos they'll never stay home and they're always alone.
Even with someone they love.

 

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