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Women Be Wise

This version of Women Be Wise was released by Bonnie Raitt in 1971.

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Women be wise, keep your mouth shut, don’t advertise your man
Don’t sit around gossiping, explaining what your good man really can do
Some women nowadays, Lord they ain’t no good
They will laugh in your face, Then try to steal your man from you
Women be wise, keep your mouth shut, don’t advertise your man

Your best girlfriend, she might be a highbrow, she changes clothes 3 times a day
What do you think she’s doing now, while you’re so far away
She’s loving your man in your own damn bed
You better call for the doctor, mama, try to investigate your head
Women be wise, keep your mouth shut, don’t advertise your man

Women be wise, keep your mouth shut, don’t advertise your man
Don’t sit around, girl, telling all your secrets,
Telling all those good things he really can do
If you talk about your baby, you tell me he’s so fine
Lord honey, I just might sneek up and try to make him mine
Women be wise, keep your mouth shut, don’t advertise your man

Don’t be no fool, don’t advertise your man (baby don’t do it)

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The lyrics for Women Be Wise are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by Bonnie Raitt. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Women Be Wise have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Women Be Wise - Bonnie Raitt and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Women Be Wise by Bonnie Raitt in multiple ways. 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 Women Be Wise" means the words set to the music of Women Be Wise, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bonnie Raitt. 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 Women Be Wise and the lyrics to Women Be Wise are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bonnie Raitt who came here looking just for the lyrics to Women Be Wise, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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