Salt In Your Veins Lyrics

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