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Credits
PERFORMING ARTISTS
Bill Wyman
Bass Guitar
Charlie Watts
Drums
Keith Richards
Background Vocals
Mick Jagger
Lead Vocals
Nicky Hopkins
Piano
Watts Street Gospel Choir
Choir
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Keith Richards
Songwriter
Michael Phillip Jagger
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Jimmy Miller
Producer
Bob Ludwig
Mastering Engineer
Eddie Kramer
Engineer
Gene Shiveley
Engineer
Glyn Johns
Engineer
Lyrics
M. Jagger/K. Richards)
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 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 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
Writer(s): Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
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