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