Be Careful Of The Stones You Throw chords by The Staple Singers

SimplifiedG · Em · D · C · Bb

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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Oh, a tongue can accuse
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and carry bad news
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Gossip is cheap and it's lo- o- ow
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So unless you've made
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no mistakes in your life
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Just be careful of  stones
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that you throw
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Verse 2
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A neighbor was passin' my garden
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one time. She stopped and I knew
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right away that it was gossip,
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not flowers, she had on her mind.
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And this is what I heard
my neighbor say- "You know,
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that girl down the street should be
run from our midst. She
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drinks and she talks quite a lot.
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She knows not to speak to my
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child and me." My neighbor
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then smiled and I thought

Verse 3
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Oh, a tongue can accuse and
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carry bad news
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Gossip is cheap
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and it's lo- o- ow
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But unless you've made no
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mistakes in your life
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Be careful of  stones
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that you throw
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Verse 4
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Just then a car speeded by in the
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screamin' of brakes- a sound that
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made my blood chill. For my
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neighbor's one child had
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been pulled from the path
and saved by a girl lyin' still.
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The child was unhurt and my
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neighbor cried out "Oh,
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who was that brave girl so sweet?
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" I covered the crushed
broken body and said
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"The bad girl who lived
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down the street."