Be Careful Of Stones That You Throw by David Allan Coe
Key:FF| Capo:0fr|
Chorus:
FCFCA tongue can accuse and carry bad news
FCG7
The seed of distrust it will sow
FCG7F
But unless you have made no mistakes in your life
CG7FC
Be careful of stones that you throw
SPOKEN
C
Why a neighbor lady was passin' my garden one time
F
And she stopped and I knew right away
G7F
That gossip not flowers she had on her mind
G7
And this is what I heard her say
C
She said, you know that girl down the street, David Allan?
She should be run from our 'midst
F
Why, she drinks and she talks quite a lot
G7F
Well she knows not to speak to my child or to me
C
And my neighbor then smiled, and I thought
Chorus
SPOKEN
C
Well a car speeding by and the screaming of brakes
FA screamin' that made my blood chill
G7F
And my neighbor's one child had been pulled from the path
G7
And saved by a girl that was lyin' still
C
And the child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out, she said
F
Oh who was that brave girl so sweet
G7F
And I covered the crushed broken body and said,
C
Why that was that bad girl that lived down the street
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