Salt of the Earth (50th Anniversary Edition)

Let's drink to the hard workin' 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 workin' 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 gray suited grafters
A choice of cancer or polio

When I look into the faceless crowd
A swirling mass of grays and black and white
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
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
Yes let us drink, to the salt of the earth
Yes let us drink, to the salt of the earth