The Salt Of The Earth Lyrics - Joan Baez

Let's drink to the hard working people 

Let's drink to the lowly of birth 

Raise your glass to the good and the evil 

Let's drink to the salt of the earth 

Say a prayer for the common foot soldier 

Spare a thought for his back brealcing work 

Say a prayer for his wife and his children 

Who burn the fires and who stili till the earth 

When I search a faceless crowd 

Swirling mass of grey and black and white 

They don't look real to me, 

In fact they look so strange 

Related 

18 Non-Traditional Yet Perfect Wedding Songs 

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody video hits 1 billion views on YouTube 

NEW SONG: Blink-182 - 'Happy Days' Lyrics 

Raise your glass to the hard working people 

Let's drink to the uncounted head 

Let's think of the wavering millions 

Who want 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 gray suited grafters 

A choice of cancer or polio! 

And when I search a faceless crowd 

Swirling mass of grey and black and white 

They don't look real to me, 

In fact they look so strange 

Let's drink to the hard working people 

Let's think of the lowly of birth 

Spare a thought for the ragtaggy people 

Let's drink to the salt of the earth 

Photos 

Let's drink to the hard working people 

Let's drink to the salt of the earth 

Let's think of the two thousand million 

Let's think of the humble of birth