"Back Stabbers," was a 1972 release by the O'Jays. It spent one week at number 1 on the Hot Soul Singles chart. This song also peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Back Stabbers, warn men about their male "friends" who smile in their faces but are secretly planning to steal their wives or girlfriends. Let's take a look and listen.
Back Stabbers
What they do?
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
All you fellas you have someone and you really care yeah, yeah
Then it's all of you fellas you 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 fists
Aiming straight at your back
And I don't think they'll miss
What they do?
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
I keep getting all these visits from my friends
Yeah, what they doing 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 coming
What can I do to get on the right track?
I wish they'd take some of these knives out of my back
What they do?
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
Ha-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Low-down dirty
What they do?
(They smiling in your face)
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes tell lies (Back stabbers)
(They smiling in your face)
I don't need low-down dirty, bastards (Back stabbers)
They smiling in your face
Da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da-da (Back stabbers)
Might be your neighbor(They smiling in your face)
Your next door neighbor, yeah(Back stabbers)
Writers: Gene Mcfadden/John Whitehead/Leon Huff
© 1972 Philadelphia International
Back Stabbers
What they do?
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
All you fellas you have someone and you really care yeah, yeah
Then it's all of you fellas you 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 fists
Aiming straight at your back
And I don't think they'll miss
What they do?
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
I keep getting all these visits from my friends
Yeah, what they doing 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 coming
What can I do to get on the right track?
I wish they'd take some of these knives out of my back
What they do?
They smiling your face
All this time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (Back stabbers)
Ha-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah
Low-down dirty
What they do?
(They smiling in your face)
Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes tell lies (Back stabbers)
(They smiling in your face)
I don't need low-down dirty, bastards (Back stabbers)
They smiling in your face
Da-da, da-da-da, da-da-da-da (Back stabbers)
Might be your neighbor(They smiling in your face)
Your next door neighbor, yeah(Back stabbers)
Writers: Gene Mcfadden/John Whitehead/Leon Huff
© 1972 Philadelphia International