Lyrics to
The Tattler

This version of The Tattler was released by Linda Ronstadt in 1976.

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Whenever you find a man
That loves every woman he sees
There’s always some kind of woman
That’s putting him up a tree
Well that kind of man he ain’t got
As much sense as a mule
You know everyone don’t love you
They’re just playing you for a fool

Oh no it’s not hard for you to understand
True love can be such a sweet harmony
If you do the best that you can

Now if you marry the wrong kind of woman
And you get where you can’t agree
Well you just as well forget your plan
Let that woman be
But a man ought to make a good husband
And quit trying to lead a fast life
Going about dressing up other women
Won’t put clothes on his own wife

Oh no it’s not hard for you to understand
True love can be such a sweet harmony
If you do the best that you can

Well there’s lots of good women want to marry
And they want to live well at home
But they’re ‘fraid they’ll get hold of some rowdy man
Can’t let other women alone
And there’s lots of good men want to marry
And they want to live well at home
But every time they turn their back there’s a man there
Asking darling is he gone

Oh no it’s not hard for you to understand
True love can be such a sweet harmony
If you do the best that you can
True love can be such a sweet harmony
If you do the best that you can

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About Lyrics and The Tattler by Linda Ronstadt

When you decide to study the lyrics to The Tattler, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1976 song by Linda Ronstadt. Some of the lyrics to The Tattler have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Linda Ronstadt and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to The Tattler if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to The Tattler" means the words set to the music of The Tattler, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Linda Ronstadt. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to The Tattler and the lyrics to The Tattler are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Linda Ronstadt who came here looking just for the lyrics to The Tattler, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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