Diggers' Song

You noble diggers all

Stand up now, stand up now

You noble diggers all

Stand up now

The waste lands you maintain

Seeing cavaliers by name

Your digging do disdain

And your persons all defame

Stand up now, diggers all

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 poor men in town

But the gentry must come down

And the poor shall wear the crown

Stand up now, diggers all

Their self-will is their law

Stand up now, stand up now

Their self-will is their law

Stand up now

Since tyranny came in

They count it now no sin

To make a gaol of gin

And to serve poor men therein

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 they are found

Their wisdom so profound

For to cheat us of the ground

Stand up now, diggers all

The lawyers they conjoin

Stand up now, stand up now

The lawyers they conjoin

Stand up now

To arrest you they advise

Such fury they devise

But the devil in them lies

And hath blinded both their eyes

Stand up now, diggers all

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 they say it is a sin

That we should now begin

Our freedom for to win

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 poor folk in awe

But they no vision saw

To maintain such a law

Glory now, diggers all!