-peak Billboard position # 31 in 1963<br />
-previously recorded by Hank William, Sr. (as "Luke the Drifter") in<br />
1952<br />
-later recorded by Hank Williams, Jr. and charted at # 37 in 1969<br />
-Words and Music by Bonnie Dodd<br />
(So be careful of stones that you throw)<br />
Oh, a tongue can accuse and carry bad news<br />
Gossip is cheap and it's lo-o-ow<br />
So unless you've made no mistakes in your life<br />
Just be careful of stones that you throw<br />
SPOKEN: A neighbor was passin' my garden one time.  She stopped and I<br />
Knew<br />
Right away   that it was gossip, not flowers, she had on her mind.  And<br />
This is what I<br />
Heard my neighbor say-"You know, that girl down the street should be run<br />
From our<br />
Midst.  She drinks and she talks quite a lot.  She knows not to speak to<br />
My child<br />
And me."  My neighbor then smiled and I thought<br />
Oh, a tongue can accuse and carry bad news<br />
Gossip is cheap and it's lo-o-ow<br />
But unless you've made no mistakes in your life<br />
Be careful of stones that you throw<br />
SPOKEN: Just then a car speeded by in the screamin' of brakes-a sound<br />
That<br />
Made my blood chill.  For my neighbor's one child had been pulled from<br />
The path<br />
And saved by a girl lyin' still.  The child was unhurt and my neighbor<br />
Cried out "Oh,<br />
Who was that brave girl so sweet?"  I covered the crushed broken body<br />
And said<br />
"The bad girl who lived down the street."<br />
So unless you've made no mistakes in your life<br />
Just be careful of stones that you throw