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Salt Of The Earth

by The Rolling Stones · posted by chibluesteve

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Draw note
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Half-step bend
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Two half-step bend
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Three half-step bend
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Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab
 7     -7  6   5   -6   6  5   -6  6
Lets drink to the hard working people
 7     -7  6   5  -6 6  5  -6 6
Lets drink to the lowly of birth
  7    7    -7   6   5   -6   6   5 -6 6
Raise your glass to the good and the evil
 7    -7   6   5   -6  6   5  -6 6
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
 7  7  -7     6   5  -6  6   5   -6  6
Say a prayer for the common foot soldier
  7   7   -7     6   5  -6    6   5   -6  6
Spare a thought for his back breaking work
 7  7  -7     6   5   -6   6   5  -6  6
Say a prayer for his wife and his children
 6   7    7   -7    6   5   -6    6    5  -6 6
Who burn the fires and who still till the earth
chorus:
-6   -6 -6   -6   7  5   6    5 -4
And when i search a faceless crowd
-6 -6  6   -6   7   5   -4    5   -4   -4
a swirling mass of gray and black and white
 -5   -5    -5   -5  -5 -5 
they don't look real to me
7   7      7   7   7   -7  6
in fact, they look so strange

  7    7    -7   6   5   -6   6  5   -6  6
Raise your glass to the hard working people
 7    -7   6   5  -6  6  5  -6  6
Lets drink to the uncounted heads
 7    -7   6   5  -6 6  5  -6   6
Lets think of the wavering millions
 6   7    7  -7   6   5  -6  6     5 -6 6
Who need leaders but get gamblers instead
  7   7   -7     6   5  -6  6   5   -6  6
Spare a thought for the stay-at-home voter
 7    7   -7    6   5    -6     6  5  -6  6
His empty eyes gaze at strange beauty shows
 7  7   -7   6   5   -6   6  5   -6  6 
And a parade of the gray suited grafters
7   -7   6   5 -6  6  5 -6 6
A choice of cancer or polio
(repeat Chorus)
 7     -7  6   5   -6   6  5   -6  6
Lets drink to the hard working people
 7    -7   6   5  -6  6 5  -6  6
Lets think of the lowly of birth
  7   7   -7     6   5  -6   6 5  -6 6
Spare a thought for the rag taggy people
 7    -7   6   5   -6  6   5  -6 6
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
 7     -7  6   5   -6   6  5   -6  6
Lets drink to the hard working people 
 7    -7   6   5   -6  6   5  -6  6
Lets drink to the salt of the earth
  7   -7   6   5   -6  6   5   -6  6
Lets think of the two thousand million
 7    -7   6   5  -6  6  5  -6 6
Lets think of the humble of birth
Play on a harmonica— watch which holes to blow & draw, with sound

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