Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys by Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson

Key: A · 185 BPM · 4/4

The progression

This song follows the I-IV-V progression in A major. Detected with medium confidence: dominant loop covers 52% of song time; partial match (67%): I-IV-V (Classic resolving progression (1-4-5)); 83% of chord time maps to diatonic romans.

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Chord chart

  • 0:00 D
  • 0:08 G
  • 0:12 A
  • 0:16 D
  • 0:23 G
  • 0:27 A
  • 0:33 D
  • 0:41 G
  • 0:45 A
  • 0:52 D
  • 0:58 G
  • 1:02 A7
  • 1:07 D
  • 1:11 E
  • 1:15 A
  • 1:19 B
  • 1:23 E
  • 1:30 A
  • 1:34 B
  • 1:40 E
  • 1:47 A
  • 1:51 B
  • 1:58 E
  • 2:04 A
  • 2:07 B
  • 2:13 E
  • 2:21 A
  • 2:25 B