The O'Jays - Back Stabbers

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                            "Back Stabbers"
                       (Kenny Gamble - Leon Huff)

Intro:

	[2X; strings enter 2nd time]

	   Cm                       Bb6
	   /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /
	Abmaj7 Gm7 Fm7               G+             [2: N.C.]
	   /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /   /  /  /  /

	(What they do!)

Chorus:

	       Cm
	(They smile in your face)
	Bb6
	All the time they want to take your place
	Abmaj7    Gm7 Fm7/Bb  G+/B
	 The back stabbers   (back stabbers)

[repeat chorus]

Verse 1:

	        Cm7                                      F7
	All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah
	          Cm7                              F7
	Then it's all of you fellows who better beware, yeah yeah
	Ebmaj7           Abmaj7
	Somebody's out to get your lady
	 Abadd9/Bb
	A few of your buddies they sure look shady
	Ebmaj7                    Abmaj7
	Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
	          Fm7
	Aimin' straight at your back
	       G+
	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