Rolling Stones – Salt Of The Earth

Salt of the Earth by Jagger and Richards
 
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 (keith sings four lines)
 
 E    B             E           A E (repeat)
 
 lets drink to the hard working people
 
 lets drink to the lowly of birth
 
 raise your glass to the good and the evil
 
 lets drink to the salt of the earth
 
 (mick sings the rest)
 
 say a prayer for the common foot soldier
 
 spare a thought for his back breaking work
 
 say a prayer for his wife and his children
 
 who burn the fires and who still till the earth
 
 
 
 (E A) (E A) (E A) (E) (E)
 
 C#m                 G#m     (repeat)
 
 and when i search a faceless crowd
 
 a swirling mass of gray and
 
 F#m
 
 black and white
 
 G#m
 
 they don`t look real to me
 
 A                     B(7)
 
 in fact, they look so strange
 
 (B(7))
 
 
 
 raise your glass to the hard working people
 
 lets drink to the uncounted heads
 
 lets think of the wandering millions
 
 who need leaders but get gamblers instead
 
 
 
 spare a thought for the stay at home voter
 
 his empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
 
 and a parade of the gray suited grafters
 
 a choice of cancer or polio
 
 
 
 and when i...
 
 
 
 lets drink to the hard working people
 
 lets think of the lowly of birth
 
 spare a thought for the rag taggy people
 
 lets drink to the salt of the earth
 
 
 
 lets drink to the hard working people
 
 lets drink to the salt of the earth
 
 lets think of the two thousand million
 
 lets think of the humble of birth
 
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