Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

[2X; strings enter 2nd time]

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(What they do!)

Chorus

  (They smile in your face)

  All the time they want to take your place

  The back stabbers (back stabbers)

[repeat chorus]

Verse 1

  All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah

  Then it's all of you fellows who better beware, yeah yeah

  Somebody's out to get your lady

  A few of your buddies they sure look shady

  Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist

  Aimin' straight at your back

  And I don't think they'll miss

(What they do!)

[repeat chorus]

Verse 2

I keep gettin' all these visits from my friends, yeah,

what they doin to me

They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah

So are they there to see my woman

I don't even be home but they just keep on comin'

What can I do to get on the right track

I wish they'd take some of these knives off my back

[repeat chorus]

[instrumental break as per intro (1X)]

Low down... dirty...

(What they do!)

[repeat chorus to fade]:

(They smile in your face)

Smiling faces... smiling faces sometimes tell lies

(Back stabbers)

(They smile in your face)

I don't need... low down, dirty bastards

(Back stabbers) [fade]

-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers