Throwing Stones
"Throwing Stones" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It appears on their 1987 album In the Dark. and 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" took place on September 17, 1982 at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine.