TATTLER
(Ry Cooder/Russ Titelman/Washington Phillips)
Tabbed by Toby Martin
From the great album Paradise & Lunch - there's not enough Ry up here!
Intro: Fsus4 F Fsus2 F x 4
F Dm Bb F
Whenever you find a man that loves every woman he sees,
F Dm Bb Csus4-C
There's always some kind of woman that's a-puttin' him up a tree.
F Bb F
Now that kind of man, he ain't got as much sense as a mule.
Bb Csus4/C
You know, everyone don't love you, they're just a-playin' you for a fool
F C
Mmmm, oh, no,
Bb F
It's not hard for you to understand.
BbDm
True love can be such a sweet harmony
C F
If you do the best that you can.
F Dm
F
If you marry the wrong kind of woman and you get where you can't agree,
Dm C/E Dm Bb C
Well, you just as well could get your hat and let that woman be.
F Bb F
But a man oughta make a good husband and quit tryin' to lead a fast life.
Bb C Csus4-C
Goin' about dressin' up other women won't put clothes on his own wife
Bb Bb - F F C C
F Bb Bb Bb F F
F F/Bb/C
F Bb
Well, there's lots of good women who wants to marry, and they want to live
F
well at home.
Dm C/E
But they're 'fraid they'll might get hold of a rowdy man, can't let other
Bb C
women alone.
F Bb
And there's lots of good men wants to marry, and they wants to live well at
F
home.
Bb
But every time they turn their back, there's another man there
C Csus4-C
askin', "Darlin', is he gone?"
End with intro.
