BLOG Extra!!! Salt of the Earth

The following post is from a BLOG called Joe Worker. Joe Worker posted the words of the great Rolling Stones Song "Salt of the Earth" I thought I would post it here for our audience. Solidarity to our Brother Joe Worker from the north country and our thanks.
In Warm Solidarity,
Joe Hill

"A sad September rain is drowning out the life of the day.

I think I 'll head down to Wally's in a bit and have a few drafts with the boys. No doubt I'll drop a quarter in the juke for the Rolling Stones' ode to the working man, 'Salt of the Earth'.

Starting today I'll give a shot at getting my thoughts out here into
cyberspace. I am a working man and damn proud of it. That is where this blog is coming from. But for now, I'm off ... Let's Drink!

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
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"

http://joeworker.blogspot.com/2004/09/lets-drink-to-salt-of-earth-you-and-me.html

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"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end...there it is!" - Sir Winston Churchill