Raise your glass to the good and the evil
Do we all look too strange? Yeah
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth
Let's think of the humble of birth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Who need leading but get gamblers instead
Let's drink to the hard working people
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
A swirling mass of gray, blue, black and white
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
A choice of cancer or polio
Let's drink to the two thousand million
A swirling mass of gray and black and white
Let's drink to the uncounted heads
Do we all look real to you?
Raise your glass to the hard working people
They don't look real to me
Let's think of the lowly of birth
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
In fact, we all look so strange, yeah
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
When I look into this faceless crowd
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
Spare a thought for his wife and his children
Let's drink to the hard working people
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
Let's think of the wavering millions
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
And when I look into this faceless crowd
Let's drink to the salt of the earth
