What they do!

They smilin’ in your face

All the time they want to take your place

The back stabbers, back stabbers

They smilin’ in your face

All the time they want to take your place

The back stabbers, back stabbers

All you fellas who have someone

and you really care yeah yeah

Then it’s all of you fellas 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

Aimed straight at your back

And I don’t think they’ll miss

What they do!

They smilin’ 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 out my back

What they do!

They smilin’ in your face

All the time they want to take your place

The back stabbers, back stabbers

Low-down dirty

What they do!

They smilin’ in your face

Smiling faces smiling faces sometimes

Where masks smilin' in your face

Mean, old lowdown dirty bastards, the black stabbers

Down, down, down

Might be your neighbor, your next door neighbor, yeah