Chumbawamba - The Diggers Song Lyrics
You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up nowYou noble diggers all stand up nowThe wasteland to maintain sin (? ) cavaliers by nameYour digging does maintain and persons all defameStand up now, stand up nowYour houses they pull down stand up now, stand up nowYour houses they pull down, stand up nowYour houses they pull down to fright your men in townBut the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crownStand up now diggers allWith spades and hoes and plows stand up now, stand up nowWith spades and hoes and plows, stand up nowYour freedom to uphold sin (? ) cavaliers are boldTo kill you if they could and rights from you to holdStand up now diggers allThe gentry are all round stand up now, stand up nowThe gentry are all round stand up nowThe gentry are all round on each side the are foundTheir wisdom so profound to cheat us of our groundStand up now stand up nowThe lawyers they conjoin stand up now stand up nowThe lawyers they conjoin stand up nowTo rescue they advise, such fury they devise, the devil in them liesAnd hath blinded both their eyesStand up now, stand up nowThe clergy they come in stand up now, stand up nowThe clergy they come in stand up nowThe clergy they come in and say it is a sinThat we should now begin our freedom for to winStand up now diggers allgainst lawyers and gainst priests stand up now stand up nowgainst lawyers and gainst priests stand up nowFor tyrants they are both, even flat against their oathTo grant us they are loathe free meat and drink and clothStand up now diggers allThe club is all their law, stand up now stand up nowThe club is all their law, stand up nowThe club is all their law, to keep all men in aweThat they no vision saw to maintain such a lawStand up now diggers all
