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Salt Of The Earth

Released by The Rolling Stones in 1968
From the Album: Beggar's Banquet |

This version of Salt Of The Earth was released by The Rolling Stones in 1968.

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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
Raise your glass to the hard working people
Let’s drink to the uncounted heads
Let’s think of the wavering millions
Who need leading but get gamblers instead
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
Empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio
And when I look in 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
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


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The Rolling Stones has released many songs over the years besides Salt Of The Earth. The Rolling Stones released songs from 1964 to 2005 spanning across albums like 12x5, The Rolling Stones, Out Of Our Heads, December's Children (And Everybody's), The Rolling Stones, Now!, Aftermath, Their Satanic Majesties Request, Between The Buttons, Flowers, Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main St., Goats Head Soup, It's Only Rock 'N' Roll, Black And Blue, Some Girls, Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You, Undercover, Dirty Work, Steel Wheels, Voodoo Lounge, Stripped, Bridges To Babylon, Forty Licks, Rarities 1971-2003, and A Bigger Bang. Decade Lyrics has over lyrics & songs by The Rolling Stones.

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