Joan Baez – Salt Of The Earth (Guitar)

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As recorded by Joan Baez (From the 1971 Album BLESSED ARE...) [Intro] G D C G D C G [Verse 1]
G     D            C            G
Let's drink to the hard working people

      D            C        G
Let's drink to the lowly of birth

           D            C            G
Raise your glass to the good and the evil

      D            C             G
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

G     D              C           G
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier

        D               C             G
Spare a thought for his back breaking work

      D              C            G
Say a prayer for his wife and his children

             D             C
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth
[Chorus]
Em              Bm       D
When I search a faceless crowd

Em               Bm                 D
Swirling mass of grey and black and white

Bm
They don't look real to me

C                    D
In fact they look so strange
[Verse 2]
G          D            C            G
Raise your glass to the hard working people

      D            C         G
Let's drink to the uncounted head

      D            C        G
Let's think of the wavering millions

         D               C            G
Who want leaders but get gamblers instead

        D               C            G
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter

          D            C              G
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows

      D         C           G
And a parade of gray suited grafters

            D         C
A choice of cancer or polio
[Chorus]
Em                  Bm       D
And when I search a faceless crowd

Em               Bm                 D
Swirling mass of grey and black and white

Bm
They don't look real to me

C                    D
In fact they look so strange
[Verse 3]
G     D            C            G
Let's drink to the hard working people

      D            C        G
Let's think of the lowly of birth

        D               C        G
Spare a thought for the ragtaggy people

      D            C             G
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

      D            C            G
Let's drink to the hard working people

      D            C           G
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

      D            C              G
Let's think of the three thousand million

      D            C
Let's think of the humble of birth
[Outro] C