Hank Williams Be Careful Of Stones You Throw Lyrics

Be Careful Of Stones You Throw Lyrics

A tongue can accuse or carry bad news; 
The seeds of distrust it will sow.

So unless you have made no mistakes in your life, 
Be careful of
stones that you throw. 
A neighbor was passing my garden one time; 
She smiled and I knew right away
That it was gossip not flowers that she
had on her mind, 
And this is what I heard my neighbor say: 

"That bad girl down the street, she should be run from our midst. 
She
drinks and she talks quite a lot. 
She knows not to speak to my child nor
to me." 
My neighbor then smiled, and I thought . . . 

A tongue
can accuse or carry bad news; 
The seeds of distrust it will sow. 
So
unless you have made no mistakes in your life, 
Be careful of stones that
you throw. 

The car speeded by, the screaming of brakes 
A
sound that made my blood chill, 
For my neighbor's one child had been
pulled from the path
And saved by a girl lying still. 

Her
child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out, 
"Oh, who is that brave girl
so sweet?" 
I covered the crushed, broken body and said, 
"That bad
girl down the street." 

A tongue can accuse or carry bad news; 
The seeds of distrust it will sow. 
So unless you have made no mistakes
in your life, 
Be careful of stones that you throw.