the rolling stones - salt of the earth - stereo edit II

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Edit 2 for headphones. Wider sound, more bass, more Stones (no sounds were added, and that goes for all of my edits). Recorded May, 1968. Released on "Beggars Banquet" in 1968.
Opening lead vocals: Keith Richards. Lead vocals: Mick Jagger. Acoustic & slide guitars: Keith Richards & Brian Jones*. Bass: Bill Wyman. Drums: Charlie Watts. Piano: Nicky Hopkins. Backing vocals: Watts Street Gospel Choir. Source of the edit: "Beggars Banquet" (UK PBTHAL Vinyl LP 16-44 kHz) - 2010.

SALT OF THE EARTH
(Jagger/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

Let's raise our drink
To the salt of the earth
Let's raise our drink
To the salt of the earth...

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* various sources mention Brian Jones did, other sources mention he didn't play slide guitar on Beggar's Banquet. As in those times the nagging between Jagger/Richards and Brian Jones had almost reached its peak it might be that Brian Jones' role in the making of the album was deliberately belittled. Therefore I added Brian Jones as slide guitar player.