Recorded by hank williams, sr.

Written by bonnie dodd



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A [f] tongue can accuse and carry bad [c] news

The [f] seeds of distrust, it will [c] sow

But [f] unless you've made no mistakes in your [c] life

Be careful of [g7] stones that you [c] throw.



(spoken)

[c] a neighbor was passing my [f] garden one time

[c] she stopped and i knew right away [g7]

That it was gossip, not flowers, she had on her mind [c]

And this is what i heard my neighbor say:



[c] "that girl down the street [f] should be run from our midst

[c] she drinks and she talks quite a lot [g7]

She knows not to speak to my child or to me." [c]

My neighbor then smiled and i thought:



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(spoken)

A car speeded by and 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 lying 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."



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