Joan Baez

Joan Baez

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  • Joan Baez The Salt of the Earth Lyrics

           

    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 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

    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

    Let's drink to the hard working people
    Let's drink to the salt of the earth
    Let's think of the three thousand million
    Let's think of the humble of birth

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