Lyrics: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
Music: Mick Jagger/Keith Richards
(Keith Richards)
Let's drink to the hard workin' people
Let's drink to the lowly of birth
(Mick Jagger)
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
(Axl Rose)
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
(Mick Jagger/Axl Rose)
Say a prayer for his wife and his children
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth
(Mick Jagger)
And when I search a faceless crowd
A swirling mass of gray and black and white
(Mick Jagger/Axl Rose)
They don't look real to me
In fact, they look so strange
(Axl Rose)
Raise your glass to the hard workin' people
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
(Mick Jagger)
Let's think of the wavering millions
Who need leading, but get gamblers instead
(Axl Rose)
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
(Mick Jagger)
And a parade of gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio
(Axl Rose)
When I look into the faceless crowd
A swirling mass of grays and black and white
(Mick Jagger/Axl Rose)
They don't look real to me
Oh don't they look so strange
Let's drink to the hard workin' people
Let's think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the hard workin' 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
Yes let us drink, to the salt of the earth
Yes let us drink, to the salt of the earth
Yes let us drink, to the salt of the earth
Let's take a drink, to the salt of the earth
Let's take a drink, to the salt of the earth
Let's take a drink, to the salt of the earth
Let's take a drink, to the salt of the earth
Let's take a drink, to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth