Released 1952 Length 2:57 Writer(s) Bonnie Dodd | Genre Country Label MGM | |
Recorded July 11, 1952, Nashville | ||
"Be Careful of Stones that You Throw" is a song recorded by Hank Williams. It was written by Bonnie Dodd.
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Background
Bonnie Dodd was a steel guitar player who wrote Tex Ritter's 1945 hit "You Will Have to Pay" and had been recording herself since 1937. The cautionary "Be Careful of Stones that You Throw" was very much in the tradition of moralizing recitations that Williams was releasing under the Luke the Drifter name; the song recounts the heroic act of a young lady who is killed while saving a child from a passing car, the same child whose mother had previously ostracized her. It was recorded at Castle Studio in Nashville with Jerry Rivers (fiddle), Don Helms (steel guitar), and Harold Bradley (rhythm guitar), while it is speculated that Chet Atkins played lead guitar and Ernie Newton played bass.