F
C
A tongue can accuse and carry bad news
F
C
The seeds of distrust it will sow
F
C
But unless you’ve made no mistakes in your life
G7
C
Be careful of stones that you throw
F
A neighbor was passing my garden one time
C
G7
She stopped and I knew right away
C
That it was gossip not flowers she had on her mind
G7
C
And this is what I heard my neighbor say
F
That girl down the street should be run from our midst
C
G7
She drinks and she talks quite a lot
C
She knows not to speak to my child or to me
G7
C
My neighbor then smiled and I thought
F
C
A tongue can accuse and carry bad news
F
C
The seeds of distrust it will sow
F
C
But unless you’ve made no mistakes in your life
G7
C
Be careful of stones that you throw
F
A car speeded by and the screaming of brakes
C
G7
A sound that made my blood chill
C
For my neighbor’s one child had been pulled from the path
G7
C
And saved by a girl lying still
F
The child was unhurt and my neighbor cried out
C
G7
Oh who was that brave girl so sweet
C
I covered the crushed broken body and said
G7
C
The bad girl who lived down the street
F
C
A tongue can accuse and carry bad news
F
C
The seeds of distrust it will sow
F
C
But unless you’ve made no mistakes in your life
G7
C
Be careful of stones that you throw