Judy Collins – Salt Of The Earth (Guitar)

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[Intro] G C G C G D [Verse 1]
G     D            G            C  G
Let's drink to the hard working people

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

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

      D            G           C
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
[Verse 2]
G     D              G           C  G
Say a prayer for the common foot-soldier

        D               G             C
Spare a thought for his back breaking work

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

    D                      G              C
Who tend the fires and who still till the earth
[Chorus]
Em              Bm
When I see this crowd of faceless

Em                 Bm        Am
A swirling mass of black and grey and white

Bm
They look so real to me

C                        A7  D
But they look so much in pain___
[Verse 3]
G          D            G            C  G
Raise your glass to the hard working people

      D            G         C
Let's drink to the uncounted dead

G     D            G        C   G
Let's think of the wavering millions

         D                G          C
Who need leaders, but get gamblers instead
[Verse 4]
G       D               G            C G
Spare a thought for the stay at-home voter

          D                    G      C
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows

G      D         G           C   G
In a parading of grey suited grafters

            D         G   C
A choice of cancer or polio
[Chorus]
Em              Bm
When I see this crowd of faceless

Em                 Bm       Am
A swirling mass of grey and black and white

Bm
They look so real to me

C                        A7  D
But they look so much in pain___
[Verse 5]
G     D            G            C  G
Let's drink to the hard working people

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

G       D               G          C  G
Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people

      D            G           C
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
[Verse 6]
G     D            G            C  G
Let's drink to the hard working people

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

G       D               G          C  G
Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people

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