The Rolling Stones - Salt of the Earth video free download


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I do not own this. Lyrics to this studio version of Salt of the Earth, the closing track on the Stones' Beggars Banquet:

Let's drink to the hard working 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 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 beauty shows

And a parade of the gray suited grafters

A choice of cancer or polio

And when I look in the faceless crowd

A swirling mass of grays and black and white

They don't look real to me

Or don't they look so strange

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 drink to the salt of the earth

Let's drink to the two thousand million

Let's think of the humble of birth

Comments

8 years ago

Robert Silva

The Rolling Stones just win. That is all. 

9 years ago

Επίγεια Ευτυχία

Rolling Stones – Salt of The Earth 1968

9 years ago

Jorge Garcia

Feliz día a todos los laburantes!

9 years ago

Jumpin' JAKE Flash

My favorite band of all time with an ode to the people of the world. #BeggarsBanquet1968 

9 years ago

Mike Hand

The Rolling Stones - Salt Of The Earth Drink to the hard working people !!!!

9 years ago

Sk8ter Girl123

this music is shity

9 years ago

Jeff Smith

Say a prayer for the common foot soldier,we owe them so very much...

9 years ago

John Wiseman

For You Sue Love To Help People That Can't Help Them Selves You A Star 5 XXXXX

9 years ago

William A. Roesler

I think this song will fit the legacy of the Stones long after they are gone. This will be THE song....

9 years ago

Waynie Ventura

Great song but they terrible with it worst original version i heard in a song

9 years ago

stoneroller1

The Picture Tells a lot of things about the Salt of The Earth !!!A lot of shit ....

9 years ago

Ricardo Ramón Peralta

NO DEJO DE EMOCIONARME CON ESTE TEMA, LO ESCUCHÉ POR PRIMERA VEZ EN EL 1969

9 years ago

1975drwho

You can hear Jagger trying to channel Bob Dylan with this song. Which is pretty cool.

9 years ago

Lou Cifer

and yes Ian finishes it off pretty good there at the end.

9 years ago

Lou Cifer

Dear Doctor.

9 years ago

RICARDO BENAVIDES

Let's drink to the hard working peopleLet's drink to 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 workSay a prayer for his wife and his childrenWho burn the fires and who still till the earthAnd when I search a faceless crowdA swirling mass of gray and black and whiteThey don't look real to meIn fact, they 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 in the faceless crowdA swirling mass of grays and black and whiteThey don't look real to meOr don't they look so 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 two thousand millionLet's think of the humble of birth...

9 years ago

Marcellis Robinson

Fuck Hillary. Fuck the Republicans. Fuck Goldman Sachs, the rest of Wall Street, and corporate control of our electoral process.Vote for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren in 2016. Vote like you have a clue.

9 years ago

Steven J. Azure

great , of course.

9 years ago

OroborusFMA

Let's drink to the uncounted heads.

9 years ago

Norman Bates

The Rolling Stones - Salt of the Earth

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