Salt Of The Earth Lyrics - Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones

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 breaking work 

Say a prayer for his wife and his children 

Who burn the fires and who still till the earth 

And when I search a faceless crowd 

A swirling mass of gray and black and white 

They don't look real to me 

In fact, they look so strange 

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Raise your glass to the hard working people 

Let's drink to the uncounted heads 

Let's think of the wavering millions 

Who needs leading, 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 

When I look into the faceless crowd 

A swirling mass of grays and black and white 

They don't look real to me 

Or don't 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 rag taggy people 

Let's drink to the salt of the earth 

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Let's drink to the hard working people 

Let's drink to the salt of the earth 

Let's drink to the two thousand million 

Let's think of the humble of birth