The Diggers' Song-Chumbawamba

[ti:The Diggers' Song] [ar:Chumbawamba] [al:English Rebel Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.93]You noble diggers all stand up now stand up now [00:06.49]You noble diggers all stand up now [00:11.09] [00:11.71]The wasteland to maintain sin cavaliers by name [00:16.89]Your digging does maintain and persons all defame [00:22.20]Stand up now stand up now [00:25.75] [00:26.70]Your houses they pull down stand up now stand up now [00:32.12]Your houses they pull down stand up now [00:37.40]Your houses they pull down to fright your men in town [00:42.77]But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown [00:47.91]Stand up now diggers all [00:51.28] [00:52.28]With spades and hoes and plows stand up now stand up now [00:57.77]With spades and hoes and plows stand up now [01:02.52] [01:03.08]Your freedom to uphold sin cavaliers are bold [01:08.38]To kill you if they could and rights from you to hold [01:13.56]Stand up now diggers all [01:16.93] [01:17.87]The gentry are all round stand up now stand up now [01:23.30]The gentry are all round stand up now [01:27.86] [01:28.60]The gentry are all round on each side the are found [01:33.70]Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground [01:38.75]Stand up now stand up now [01:42.12] [01:43.18]The lawyers they conjoin stand up now stand up now [01:48.67]The lawyers they conjoin stand up now [01:53.41] [01:54.04]To rescue they advise such fury they devise the devil in them lies [02:01.65]And hath blinded both their eyes [02:04.21]Stand up now stand up now [02:07.79] [02:08.73]The clergy they come in stand up now stand up now [02:14.16]The clergy they come in stand up now [02:18.75] [02:19.44]The clergy they come in and say it is a sin [02:24.68]That we should now begin our freedom for to win [02:29.80]Stand up now diggers all [02:33.29] [02:34.42]'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests stand up now stand up now [02:39.84]'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests stand up now [02:44.59] [02:45.27]For tyrants they are both even flat against their oath [02:50.58]To grant us they are loathe free meat and drink and cloth [02:55.63]Stand up now diggers all [02:59.38] [03:00.19]The club is all their law stand up now stand up now [03:05.62]The club is all their law stand up now [03:10.30] [03:10.86]The club is all their law to keep all men in awe [03:16.12]That they no vision saw to maintain such a law [03:21.11]Stand up now diggers all