"Throwing Stones" is a song by the
Grateful Dead
The Grateful Dead was an American rock music, rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California. The band is known for its eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, Folk music, folk, country music, country, jazz, bluegrass music, bluegrass, ...
. It appears on their 1987 album ''
In the Dark''. It was also released as a single, with a B-side of "When Push Comes to Shove".
The song is based loosely on the nursery rhyme
Ring Around the Rosie. The song repeatedly mentions the line
Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down!.
The first live performance of "Throwing Stones" was on September 17, 1982, at the
Cumberland County Civic Center in
Portland, Maine.
References
Grateful Dead songs
Songs written by Bob Weir
1987 songs
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