Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw lyrics


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Recorded by hank williams, sr.

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Written by bonnie dodd

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b
Chorus

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A [f] tongue can accuse and carry bad [c] news

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The [f] seeds of distrust, it will [c] sow

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But [f] unless you've made no mistakes in your [c] life

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Be careful of [g7] stones that you [c] throw.

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d
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[c] a neighbor was passing my [f] garden one time

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[c] she stopped and i knew right away [g7]

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That it was gossip, not flowers, she had on her mind [c]

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And this is what i heard my neighbor say:

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[c] "that girl down the street [f] should be run from our midst

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[c] she drinks and she talks quite a lot [g7]

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She knows not to speak to my child or to me." [c]

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My neighbor then smiled and i thought:

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b
Chorus

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d
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A car speeded by and the screamin' of brakes

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A sound that made my blood chill

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For my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path

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And saved by a girl lying still.

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The child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out:

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"oh! who was that brave girl so sweet?"

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I covered the crushed, broken body and said:

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"the bad girl who lived down the street."

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b
Chorus

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