You noble Diggers all
Stand up now, stand up now
You noble Diggers all
Stand up now
The wasteland to maintain
Seen Cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain
And persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now
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
Seen Cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could
And rights from you to hold
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
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
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
To cheat us of our ground
Stand up now, stand up now
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 men in awe
That they no vision saw
To maintain such a law
Stand up now, Diggers all
Writer(s): Judith Abbott, Neil Ferguson, Louise Watts, Allan Whalley, Duncan Bruce, Darren Hamer, Nigel Hunter, Alice Nutter Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
