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Subject: Rolling Stones - Salt Of The Earth
From: yanoff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott A. Yanoff)
Subject: CRD:Salt of the Earth (Stones)
Salt of the Earth by Jagger and Richards
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(keith sings four lines)
E B E A E (repeat)
lets drink to the hard working people
lets drink to the lowly of birth
raise your glass to the good and the evil
lets drink to the salt of the earth
(mick sings the rest)
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
(E A) (E A) (E A) (E) (E)
C#m G#m (repeat)
and when i search a faceless crowd
a swirling mass of gray and
F#m
black and white
G#m
they don't look real to me
A B(7)
in fact, they look so strange
(B(7))
raise your glass to the hard working people
lets drink to the uncounted heads
lets think of the wandering millions
who need leaders but get gamblers instead
spare a thought for the stay at home voter
his empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
and a parade of the gray suited grafters
a choice of cancer or polio
and when i...
lets drink to the hard working people
lets think of the lowly of birth
spare a thought for the rag taggy people
lets drink to the salt of the earth
lets drink to the hard working people
lets drink to the salt of the earth
lets think of the two thousand million
lets think of the humble of birth
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†grave† Lead Player |
#1 by †grave† f at Aug 6, 1973 at 5:43 PM EST |
| you people should look for the live version with mr.axl rose. it's TOTALLY LOVELY. i even loved it more than the non-live version. | |
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leester Professional |
#2 by leester at Sep 11, 1979 at 9:08 AM EST |
| Keith Richards' first lead vocal for The Stones. He and Mick Jagger both sing on this. The song salutes the working class peoples. | |
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jacob Average |
#3 by jacob ap at Dec 3, 1980 at 11:54 PM EST |
| Yay! | |
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Zach Average |
#4 by Zach at Apr 2, 1989 at 8:17 PM EST |
| I'll drink to that. This song is quite radical. Mick and Keith I believed went down to L.A. and got some gospel girls to sing. They obviously kept them. I love those gospel singers. HAHAHA | |
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massie Professional Badass |
#5 by massie at May 15, 1991 at 5:24 PM EST |
| Just the stones paying due to those who mkae everything possible yet are never in the lime-light. | |
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Badass |
#6 by Nirvana at Oct 6, 2001 at 7:42 AM EST |
| Yeah, and dont forget its also the 60s dandy hippy in them sarcastically taking the p*ss out of working class protest songs. | |