Old song new times same story
Posted by Gordon on Sep 16th, 2009
2009
Sep 16
These are some damn fine lyrics. And given recent events hold a certain timeless quality.
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 insteadSpare 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 polioAnd 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 strangeLet’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
~Salt of the Earth by the Rolling Stones