Judy Collins Salt Of The Earth Lyrics

Let's drink to the hard-working people
Let's drink of 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 tend the fires and who still till the earth

And when I see this crowd of faces
A swirling mass of black and
Gray and white
They look so real to me
But they look so much in pain

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
His empty eyes gaze at strange music shows
See the parade of gray-suited grafters
The world is starving and they don’t want to know And when I see this crowd of faces
A swirling mass of gray and
Black and white
They look so real to me
And they look so much in pain

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 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 people
Ah-Aah… the salt of the earth

Let's drink… to the people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

Let's drink… to the people
Ah-Aah… to the salt of the earth

Let's drink… to the people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

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