Chumbawamba - The Diggers Song lyrics
[Chumbawamba - The Diggers Song lyrics]
You noble diggers all stand up now
Stand up now
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sing
Cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and
Persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now
Your houses they pull down stand up now
Stand up now
Your houses they pull down, stand up now
Your houses they pull down to
Fright your men in town
But the gentry must come down and
The poor shall wear the crown
Stand up now diggers all
With spades and hoes and
Ploughs stand up now, stand up now
With spades and hoes and ploughs
Stand up now your freedom to uphold sing
Cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could and
Rights from you to hold
Stand up now diggers all
The gentry are all round stand up now
Stand up now
The gentry are all round stand up now
The gentry are all round on
Each side the are found
Their wisdom so profound to cheat
Us of our ground stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up
Now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
To rescue they advise, such fury they devise
The devil in them lies
And hath blinded both their eyes
Stand up now, stand up now
The clergy they come in stand up now
Stand up now
The clergy they come in stand up now
The clergy they come in and say it is a sin
That we should now begin our
Freedom for to win stand up now diggers all
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests stand
Up now stand up now
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests
Stand up now for tyrants they are both
Even flat against their oath
To grant us they are loathe free
Meat and drink and cloth
Stand up now diggers all
The club is all their law
Stand up now stand up now
The club is all their law, stand up now
The club is all their law
To keep all men in awe
That they no vision saw to
Maintain such a law stand up now diggers all
Stand up now
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sing
Cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and
Persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now
Your houses they pull down stand up now
Stand up now
Your houses they pull down, stand up now
Your houses they pull down to
Fright your men in town
But the gentry must come down and
The poor shall wear the crown
Stand up now diggers all
With spades and hoes and
Ploughs stand up now, stand up now
With spades and hoes and ploughs
Stand up now your freedom to uphold sing
Cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could and
Rights from you to hold
Stand up now diggers all
The gentry are all round stand up now
Stand up now
The gentry are all round stand up now
The gentry are all round on
Each side the are found
Their wisdom so profound to cheat
Us of our ground stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up
Now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
To rescue they advise, such fury they devise
The devil in them lies
And hath blinded both their eyes
Stand up now, stand up now
The clergy they come in stand up now
Stand up now
The clergy they come in stand up now
The clergy they come in and say it is a sin
That we should now begin our
Freedom for to win stand up now diggers all
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests stand
Up now stand up now
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests
Stand up now for tyrants they are both
Even flat against their oath
To grant us they are loathe free
Meat and drink and cloth
Stand up now diggers all
The club is all their law
Stand up now stand up now
The club is all their law, stand up now
The club is all their law
To keep all men in awe
That they no vision saw to
Maintain such a law stand up now diggers all