You Can't Treat The Wrong Man Right Lyrics - Linda Ronstadt

written by Jimmy Webb 

copyright 1986 White Oak Songs (ASCAP) 

Can't you see he doesn't care 

He likes to play with you that's all 

He's waiting on someone else's call 

He's playing it cool 

Why's it so hard to reach you? 

Why are you still out there 

Beating your heart against the wall 

Waiting for Jericho to fall 

You hard-headed fool 

Didn't your mama teach you 

Anything at all 

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You can't treat the wrong man right 

Or change a devil to an angel overnight 

He'll wreck all your best laid plans for spite 

You can't treat the wrong man right 

You can't treat the right man wrong 

When you're out on the town 

Acting mean and head-strong 

He'll sit home and wait for you all night long 

You can't treat the right man wrong 

I heard it on the telephone 

A woman was whispering in my ear 

And though I was trying not to hear 

The message came through 

She was someone who knew you 

I guess she told me everything 

I wasn't listening anyway 

I know she had a lot to say 

But nothing was clear 

I only remember her voice 

Above the sound of the pinball 

Saying to me 

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You can't treat the wrong man right 

Or change a devil to an angel overnight 

He'll steal all your love and and fly by night 

You can't treat the wrong man right 

You can't treat the right man wrong 

You can run all the way from here to Hong Kong 

And he'll be waiting when you come back in sight 

You can't treat the right man wrong 

You can't treat the wrong man right 

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GUITARS: Dean Parks 

DRUMS: Russ Kunkel 

BASS: Leland Sklar 

ACOUSTIC PIANO: Matt Rollings 

SYNTHESIZER AND B-3: Robbie Buchanan 

BACKGROUND VOCALS: Alex Brown, Mortonette Jenkins, Marlena Jeter 

ADDITIONAL BACKGROUND VOCALS: Linda Ronstadt