Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw

A tongue can accuse and carry bad news The seed of distrust it will sow But unless you have made no mistakes in your life Be careful of stones that you throw SPOKEN Why a neighbor lady was passin' my garden one time And she stopped and I knew right away That gossip not flowers she had on her mind And this is what I heard her say She said, you know that girl down the street, David Allan? She should be run from our 'midst Why, she drinks and she talks quite a lot Well she knows not to speak to my child or to me And my neighbor then smiled, and I thought A tongue can accuse and carry bad news The seed of distrust it will sow But unless you have made no mistakes in your life Be careful of stones that you throw SPOKEN Well a car speeding by and the screaming of brakes A screamin' that made my blood chill And my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path And saved by a girl that was lyin' still And the child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out, she said Oh who was that brave girl so sweet And I covered the crushed broken body and said, Why that was that bad girl that lived down the street A tongue can accuse and carry bad news The seed of distrust it will sow But unless you have made no mistakes in your life Be careful of stones that you throw