Throwing Stones

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This article is about the song. For the role-playing game, see Throwing Stones (role-playing game). For throwing stones as an assault, see Rock throwing (weapon).
"Throwing Stones"
File:Grateful-Dead-Throwing-Stones-single.jpg
Single by Grateful Dead
from the album In the Dark
B-side"When Push Comes To Shove"
ReleasedJuly 6, 1987 (1987-07-06)
GenreRock
Length7:21
LabelArista
SongwritersComposer: Bob Weir
Lyricist: John Perry Barlow
ProducersJerry Garcia, John Cutler

"Throwing Stones" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It appears on their 1987 album In the Dark.[1] It was also released as a single, with a B-side of "When Push Comes to Shove".[2]

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.[3]

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