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