The Diggers Song Songtext
von Lady Maisery

You noble diggers all, stand up now, stand up now
You noble diggers all, stand up now
The wastelands 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 counted none of sin
To make a jail a 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, one 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
They 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 visions saw, to maintain such a law
Glory now, diggers all