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