You can't stop a tattler And there ain't no use in you tryin' Just as long as this world lasted They gonna find somebody lyin' Oh, deliver me from a woman or either man You know, now it's all "the go" That will go about from house to house And tell everything that they know Oh, people ought to quit tattlin' I'll tell you for the reason why They don't always know what they're talkin' about And may be carryin' a lie Oh, there's lots of good women now, wantin' to marry And they wants to live well at home But they're afraid they will get a-hold of a rowdy man That won't let other women alone Well there's lots of good men now, wantin' to marry And they wants to live well at home But he's 'fraid every time his back turned, there's a man there Asking, "Darling, is he gone?"