Salt Of The Earth

artist／The Rolling Stones

                         1989 Live (youtube) 

SaltL Of The Earth
   (song by M.Jaggar & K.Richards)

Let's drink to the hard workin‘ 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 workin‘ 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
Oh don't they look so strange

Let's drink to the hard workin‘ people
Let's think of the lowly of birth
Spare a thought for the rag-tagged people
Let's drink to the salt of the earth

Let's drink to the hard workin‘ 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

from “ Beggars Banquet ”/1968

Salt Of The Earth

乾杯しよう､働きづめの人たちへ
さあ乾杯を､下層に生まれた人へ
グラスを上げ､善人や悪い奴にも
乾杯しよう､｢地の塩｣に

祈ろう､平凡な兵士のために
考えてみてくれ､この酷い仕業を
祈ろうよ､その女房や子のために
火を熾こし､地を耕こしている

表情を無くした連中を見ていると
灰色と黒と白の渦巻くかたまりさ
俺には現実とは思えないんだ
そのうえ凄く奇妙に視えてくる

グラスを上げ､仕事漬けの人々へ
数えきれないほどの頭上へ乾杯！
さあ乾杯だ､こころ迷える民草へ
リーダーを求める代わりに
ペテン師をつかんじまった

考えよう､家に閉じこもる大人を
虚ろな眼つきで眺めている
気味悪く美しいショーとパレード
グレースーツの不正な政治屋の
ガンかポリオの選択さ

無名の人の群れを覗き込んだとき
灰色と黒と白が渦巻く集まりが
現実とは思えないけれど､､､いや
彼らはそんなに奇妙しくないのさ

乾杯しよう､働きづめの人たちに
さあ乾杯を､下層に生まれた人に
考えよう､ボロをまとった人々を
乾杯しよう､｢地の塩｣に

乾杯しよう､働きづめの民草に
乾杯しよう､｢地の塩｣へ
乾杯しよう､その二十億へ
乾杯を！ 質素に生まれた人たちへ

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