Salt In Your Veins

Alois was a miner, he worked below the land In the days when salt was white gold The mountain mines of Saltsburg fed the tables of the world For the salt good men grew old There's a river of salt in your veins There's a river of salt in your veins A river of love, a river of tears A river of blood running through those years You got salt in your veins Alois was nineteen when came his first-born son Cradled him singing protestant lullaby's In their alpine cottage, he and Mary made their home A miner's life in a rich, verdant land There's a river of salt in your veins There's a river of salt in your veins A river of love, a river of tears A river of blood running through those years You got salt in your veins The hard line of Frederick it spread across the land And angered every free-thinking man Soon the line was drawn between neighbours and kin The Catholic Prince are you for or agin There's gonna be trouble, there's gonna be a fight There's gonna be bloodshed defending this land The people are stirring there's gonna be war Brother against brother Called to arms once more From Austria to Germany to Poland Alois fled Taking only what he held in his hand He boarded the Fritz Reuter never to return Five months voyage to New Zealand There's a river of salt in your veins There's a river of salt in your veins A river of love, a river of tears A river of blood running through those years You got salt in your veins You got salt in your veins You got salt in your veins