Rotary Connection - The Salt of the Earth Lyrics

(Mick Jagger, Keith Richards)Let's drink to the hard working peopleLet's drink of the lowly of birthRaise your glass to the good and the evilLet's drink to the salt of the earthSay a prayer for the common foot soldierSpare a thought for his back breaking workSpare a part for his wife and his childrenWho burn the fires and who still till the earthAnd when I look into the this faceless crowdA swirling mass of gray blueBlack and whiteThey don't look real to meIn fact, we all look so strangeRaise your glass to the hard working peopleLet's drink to the uncounted headsLet's think of the wavering millionsWho need leading but get gamblers insteadSpare a thought for the stay-at-home voterHis empty eyes gaze at strange beauty showsAnd a parade of the gray suited graftersA choice of cancer or polioAnd when I look into this faceless crowdA swirling mass of grays andBlack and whiteThey don't look real to youOr do we look too strangeLet's drink to the hard working peopleLet's think of the lowly of birthSpare a thought for the rag taggy peopleLet's drink to the salt of the earthLet's drink to the hard working peopleLet's drink to the salt of the earthLet's drink to the three thousand millionLet's think of the humble of birth