title: Backstabbers
key: Soul
harp type: Chromatic
genre: E
skill: Any

BACKSTABBERS chromatic
By: Leon Huff, Gene McFadden, John Whitehead
The O�Jays
Key: E
(What they do!)
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They smile-in in your face
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stab-bers, back stab-bers
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They smile-in in your face
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stab-bers, back stab-bers
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All you fel-las who have a wom-an
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and you real-ly care, yeah
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Well, it’s all of you fel-las
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who bet-ter be-ware, yeah yeah
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Some-bod-y’s out to get your la- dy
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A few of your bud-dies they sure look sha-dy
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They don�t know what�s tight in their fist
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And it�s time to jump back
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And I don’t think they’ll miss
(What they do!)
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They smile-in in your face
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stab-bers, back stab-bers
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Keep get-tin’ all these mes-sag-es
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from my friends, yeah,
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(What they do-in to me?)
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They come to my house a-gain and
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a-gain and a-gain and a-gain, yeah
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They�re on-ly there to see my wom- an
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I don’t ev-en be home
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but they just keep on com-in’
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What can I do
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to get on the right track
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I wish they’d take some of these
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knives out of my back
(What they do!)
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They smile-in in your face
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stab-bers, back stab-bers
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Ah
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Low down… dir-ty…
(What they do!)
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They smile-in in your face
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stab-bers, back stab-bers
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They smile-in in your face
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All the time they want to take your place
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The back stab-bers, back stab-bers