Judy Collins - Salt Of The Earth
[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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Let's drink to the hard working people
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Let's drink to the lowly of birth
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Raise your glass to the good and the evil
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Let's drink to the salt of the earth
[Verse 2]
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Say a prayer for the common foot-soldier
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Spare a thought for his back breaking work
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Say a prayer for his wife and his children
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Who tend the fires and who still till the earth
[Chorus]
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When I see this crowd of faceless
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A swirling mass of black and grey and white
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They look so real to me
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But they look so much in pain___
[Verse 3]
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Raise your glass to the hard working people
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Let's drink to the uncounted dead
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Let's think of the wavering millions
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Who need leaders, but get gamblers instead
[Verse 4]
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Spare a thought for the stay at-home voter
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His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
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In a parading of grey suited grafters
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A choice of cancer or polio
[Chorus]
Em Bm
When I see this crowd of faceless
Em Bm Am
A swirling mass of grey and black and white
Bm
They look so real to me
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But they look so much in pain___
[Verse 5]
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Let's drink to the hard working people
D G C
Let's think of the lowly of birth
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Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people
D G C
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
[Verse 6]
G D G C G
Let's drink to the hard working people
D G C
Let's think of the lowly of birth
G D G C G
Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people
D G C
Let's drink to the salt of the earth