Back Stabbers
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want
to take your place
The back stabbers
(back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want
to take your place
The back stabbers
(back stabbers)
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!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want
to take your place
The back stabbers
(back stabbers)
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
(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want
to take your place
The back stabbers
(back stabbers)
Ah ah ah ah
Low down dirty
(What they do!)
(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)
(They smile in your face)
Down down down down…
Songwriters: John Lee Hooker / Al Smith
