Sea Green Singers - Repertoire

Sea Green Singers - Diggers Song

The Diggers Song - Gerrard Winstanley

1. You noble Diggers all, stand up now, stand up now,
You noble Diggers all, stand up now!
The wasteland to maintain, seeing cavaliers by name
Your digging do disdain, and persons all defame,
Stand up now, stand up now!

2. Your houses they pull down, stand up now, stand up now,
Your houses they pull down, stand up nowl
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!

3. '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 loath, free meat and drink and cloth,
Stand up now, stand up now!

4. 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, seeing cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could, your rights from you to hold,
Stand up now, stand up now.