"Throwing Stones" is a song by the Grateful Dead.

[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!

The first live performance of "Throwing Stones" was on September 17, 1982, at the Cumberland County Civic Center in Portland, Maine.