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