(keith sings four lines)



E    B             E           A E (repeat)



lets drink to the hard working people



lets drink to the lowly of birth



raise your glass to the good and the evil



lets drink to the salt of the earth



(mick sings the rest)



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







(E A) (E A) (E A) (E) (E)



C#m                 G#m     (repeat)



and when i search a faceless crowd



a swirling mass of gray and



F#m



black and white



G#m



they don't look real to me



A                     B(7)



in fact, they look so strange



(B(7))







raise your glass to the hard working people



lets drink to the uncounted heads



lets think of the wandering millions



who need leaders 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...







lets drink to the hard working people



lets think of the lowly of birth



spare a thought for the rag taggy people



lets drink to the salt of the earth







lets drink to the hard working people



lets drink to the salt of the earth



lets think of the two thousand million



lets think of the humble of birth



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