Chumbawamba - The Diggers Song Lyrics

You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up now
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sin [unknown] cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now
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 your men in town
But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown
Stand up now diggers all
With spades and hoes and plows stand up now, stand up now
With spades and hoes and plows, stand up now
Your freedom to uphold sin [unknown] cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could and rights from you to hold
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 the are found
Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground
Stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
To rescue 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
'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 loathe free meat and drink and cloth
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 all men in awe
That they no vision saw to maintain such a law
Stand up now diggers all

These are the same ppl who wrote Tubthumping...

Virgin French Revolution vs Chad English Revolution

Lyrics:

You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up now
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sin [unknown] cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now
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 your men in town
But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown
Stand up now diggers all
With spades and hoes and plows stand up now, stand up now
With spades and hoes and plows, stand up now
Your freedom to uphold sin [unknown] cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could and rights from you to hold
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 the are found
Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground
Stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
To rescue 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
'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 loathe free meat and drink and cloth
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 all men in awe
That they no vision saw to maintain such a law
Stand up now diggers all

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Lyrics:
You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up now
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sin (?) cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now
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 your men in town
But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown
Stand up now diggers all
With spades and hoes and plows stand up now, stand up now
With spades and hoes and plows, stand up now
Your freedom to uphold sin (?) cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could and rights from you to hold
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 the are found
Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground
Stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
To rescue 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
'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 loathe free meat and drink and cloth
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 all men in awe
That they no vision saw to maintain such a law
Stand up now diggers all

Why is 'Colliers' March' not in the playlist? This isn't the true album playlist.

Grab the guns and the ropes

I am a modern day digger, occupying land and no Cavalier will be allowed to disposess me.

#YellowVests

YEAH COMMUNISM WOOHOO!

christian anarchist not communist.

@x y z Let it be...is just a retarded kid...saw V too many times...

You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up now
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sin (?) cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and persons all defame
Stand up now, stand up now
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 your men in town
But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown
Stand up now diggers all
With spades and hoes and plows stand up now, stand up now
With spades and hoes and plows, stand up now
Your freedom to uphold sin (?) cavaliers are bold
To kill you if they could and rights from you to hold
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 the are found
Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground
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 lawyers they conjoin stand up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
To rescue they advise, such fury they devise, the devil in them lies
And hath blinded both their eyes
Stand up now, stand up now
'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 loathe free meat and drink and cloth
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 all men in awe
That they no vision saw to maintain such a law
Stand up now diggers all !

the chumbas are the shizit!

"dprkspacemarine"
did you, like, miss the satirical themes in warhammer 40k, or take it at face-value like a fashy chud?

Love it, but they ripped off the corries "ye Jacobites by name "

I think this song came first

Ye Jacobites by name is a Rabbie burns song.

@Simon Cook chumbawumba didn't rip off anyone, they didn't write the song. a lot of old folk songs like this one use an existing melody, so the two songs just happen to share the same tune.

Love this version but also the version by Atilla the Stockbroker'Barnstormer.

I am glad that someone mentioned Attila the stockbroker as I personally think his version is better

The poor shall wear the crown!

King Penda of Mercia They will destroy the crown!

Here now from West Virginia, the son and grandson of miners and teachers.

All power to the people comrades

this is about christian anarchs in the 1600's...what the fuck are you talking about?

@Jimmy Jazz the same damn thing they were talking about then.

@George Parkins you don't seem to understand the concept of the word "comrades" then...nor its place in the temporality of historical process...again.."what the fuck is he talking about!?"

@Jimmy Jazz Class warfare, in both cases. You're playing dumb, not me, buddy.

which people did you have in mind? self-appointed leaders of the 'working class' like communists?

As a geolibertarian, I approve of this message.

That's the Ye Jacobites By Name's rhythm isn't it ? :D

This is the orignal

A Capitalist is a man who privatises profit and socialises loss. End all subsidies for landowners now.

hear hear

@Riley Sanderson we are coming for your daddy's property, kiddo

@George Parkins We are many they are few

@exsilencio We as in the workers? Hell yeah.

@George Parkins I got it from here: https://youtu.be/o0MkiJljBEM though the song itself is an adaptation from a poem by... Shelley I think?

No War except Class War!

Pat Kelly
Everywhere at all times by any means necessary and with every available resource.

the First shall be the Last.

@Jimmy Jazz Fuck off, fash.

stand up now july 1 diggers all

What is the connection between this song and Ye Jacobites by name?

yes its the same tune, called 'Captain Kidd' I think. It seems to have been much used over the years especially for protest songs. Also adapted for the hymn tune 'Wondrous Love'. Its a very powerful simple melody.

Jacobites were CATHOLIC beholden to the POPE and VATICAN! there is NO CONNECTION. just because tunes are similar or have been around for long time doesnt mean the words are related.

Jacobites were catholic DIGGERS were NOT.

A true Working Class song! Fuck the corrupt nobility that enslave and bleed dry the nation! Fuck the Royals, fuck the Tories, long live the Worker!

England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland all deserve true freedom - the vote to be independent republics and an end to the rampant inequality and classism that seeps through our leaders - people who have held wealth and land since 1066!

no partazan Tivvyultras stand up now

The EU they conjoin stand up now stand up now
The EU they conjoin stand up now
To arrest you they advise, such fury they devise
The devil in their lies and are blinded both their eyes
stand up now stand up now.
Vote leave 23rd June

the leave vote was primarily motivated by right-wing nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment you fucking clown

The leave vote will make the poor oppressed poorer and more oppressed

yeah and all the immigrants won't magically disappear, which seemed to shock most people the day after the vote.

True. But then you must stand up to the financiers and their priests in academia who say their power is natural and given by the market their god. Burn them on piers I say.

No but we can control their number now.

TIL "cloth" rhymed with "oath" in 15th century English.

YOu find a lot of weird rhymes that used to work when reading/listening to old poetry.

"Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"

'Eye' and 'symmetry' should NOT rhyme, and yet they did in the 18th century.

Actually, that's one of the main ways we figure out how old languages and dialects were pronounced: by looking at rhymes. That's part of how we learned what ancient Latin sounded like.

A lot of Shakespeare is like that too. From Sonnet 116:
"If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved. "

I know it is super late to comment on this but what you talking about in this instance is a so called "eye rhyme" were despite a similar appearance the words do NOT actually sound alike.

It is sometimes used for additional emphasis and considering the rhymed word is "symmetry" there seems to be rather deliberate play with the dichotomy of using that word at the exact place the poem doesnt rhyme here.

Also "bold" and "could."

Top quality bant

I'm a Yankee and i love this song.

+Daniel Coe As a fellow Yank myself, I knew very little about the Diggers' Revolt before I heard this song and it spoke my language. We are still held up by similar rulers just under different names and banners, to have it be stated by peasants a few hundred years ago states that their struggle is our struggle.

+Daniel Coe Me too.

The whole point of Folk music is that it has the same resonance on the instruments of today as on the instruments of when it was written. It is just a pity that it is not just the music that has same resonance, it is also the message of struggle that seems ro stay much the same as well,

Absolutely, Comrade!

A good song for Walmart Employees!

+Steve Duran Hahahahahaha

Target employees trying now to crack the notorious anti-union stance of their company. Sing it loud for them!

"The club is all their law! Stand up now!"

Wonderful...!!

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+Community ARK Project Not my thing but good luck to all of you. Long may we live in a free country

+Community ARK Project I wish you well too

Good to see Utopian Socialism is alive and well.....

Of course they were neither capitalist nor communists nor socialists in the modern sense, for such words and ideologies were not yet coined.  But nor were they English nationalists or racialists.  Clearly this is about class war, as it took place in pre-industrial feudal societies.  But yes, there is stuff here to inspire modern folk who love freedom.

+Ethan Davidson
I am a Anarchist myself, and can relate it is thought to have formulated with men like Godwin but, in truth it comes from ancient Greece. Anarchism is Greek for ''Without Rulers''. The Diggers are more Communistic then Anarchist in that top down power structure was still appealed with them.

One of Anarchist thought in 15th Century Prauge is Peter Chelickicky and his The Net of Faith. I have this work German. One author to aid you in our history is Rudolf Rocker and his book Anarchism.

I wold say the diggers whet more close to left wing anarchist

Christian Anarchism

Opinunate ted and you, I’m my op, think way too much, lol... who cares what they were in our eyes?

The diggers were profoundly anticapitalist and clearly agrarian socialists. The terms didn’t exist, but the ideas certainly did.

stand up against the new model army?

as far as I understand that was going on despite them.. these movements were in the midst of the turmoil not for or against it.. beyond. reaching past it.. this is why people fucked off and went across the oceans!

Serfs up!

billy bragg has one same tune the thatcherites

Not at all the same tune and Billy Bragg sang Leon Rosselson's song, "The World Turned Upside Down" on the same theme which Rosselson was inspired to write after having read Christopher Hill's book about the English revolution. https://youtu.be/YwQwA_kFxoE

it  really is the same tune the melody varies slightly but the harmonics are the same--loved Hill's book :)

That song is written to the tune of the classical Scottish folk song "Ye Jacobites by name", written by Robert Burns. While the tunes are somewhat similar, they are certainly not the same.

Wigan 3rd Diggers Festival 7th September (free)

2013 - Long live the Diggers!

part of my British cultural studies exam last year ^^

This and "Song on the Times" are my favourites

Pelle d'oca!!!!

And you are a semen waste.

This reminds me old times of Minecraft :)

17th century ballad, “Levellers and Diggers” written by Gerard Winstanley, the founder of the diggers.

"The Many Headed Hydra" is great History book. Check it out...great information.

Wigan Diggers Festival 8th September 2012. All day festival free! Gerrard Winstanley born in Wigan.

I have this with the other protest songs on a 10" vinyl recording. Love It.

wow read about the diggers a while ago, cool to see a song about them!

@LexMan89 You can do that but it just proves my point. Oh, by the way, I've been a hard working member of your so called proletariet for 40 years now (coal mining and trucking). My Dad (he was a butcher at a meat packing plant) taught me two important concepts: 1. The world doesn't owe you a living and 2. Life isn't fair...get over it. As the old country song says "if I didn't earn it, I don't want it". It's the way real Americans think. OK now socialist parrot...give it your best shot.

@Dagger1955
Do you have any original thoughts of your own capitalist. Stealing from those who let you; typical capitalist. Blaming and greedy.

I can throw your own words back at you all day long if you want.

@LexMan89 Do you have any original thoughts of your own marxist. Stealing from those who can; typical socialist. Lazy and needy.

Before the lefties got all their workplace laws, unions, wage laws, healthcare, etc, coal miners used to be treated like slaves, kept in perpetual debt, forced to live in company towns in abysmal conditions and then dropped like a stone to die the moment they got old or injured. If you had to live in an actual laissez faire capitalist workplace you wouldn't have been able to afford a computer to type this on because those places were nightmares that haven't existed in the developed world for a century. And the only reason that changed is because a bunch of socialists, trade unionists and progressives rioted and struck and died. You probably would have told a slave on a plantation that the world isn't fair and doesn't owe him a living and that he should get back to picking cotton. And back in the laissez faire days there wasn't a shred of difference between a coal miner and a slave.

Capitalists are people who are too greedy to share with the rest and expect to pay them for less than they're worth. It's a form of thievery plain and simple. Cry all you want, it is what it is.

This estrogen filled schmuck says as he is too afraid to go and live in a communist. Why don't you go, you low IQ twit?

Tremuoso and live in a communist?

Shit dude, I didn't know you could live in a communist.

Socialists are people who are too lazy to take care of themselves and expect to leech off people who can. It's a form of thievery plain and simple. Cry all you want, it is what it is.

Ha ha! Aren't the snickering bourgeois like that?

Brilliant

marvellous to see how people do not understand the socialist history of this island We should all look back and see the chance we had to change history.Gone now i fear

@Frasssaanarchy -.- you are so insolent, hold your tounge or we hold it for you! England is not britian, they are not the same, the english are english and england ist english! Britian has nothing to do with the issues of england, england is english, and must work for english not brittian...

Britain is not England but England is part of Britain so you can fuck right off and learn how to spell BRITAIN correctly

@hamsterbass123 Yes by stand up they meant sit down and complain untill we have communism, take your communism and shove it up your asse. This is about england, not about your problems, or you, or world. But england. These people were not communists, they where not capitalists, how dare you insult my ancestors by labeling them as such!!! They believed their wealth was belonging to their race, you would call them racists. They do not believe what you believe, they wanted war not peace!!!

Occupy!

Why can't people just enjoy a song without argueing about random crap c'mon whats ups with that

@jokrol324 you obviously searched up this band/song just to troll... why?

Great song, clergy in Ireland condemned rebels as well.

Do komen em letzte Augebleck
et wor ald fünf vür zwölf
die Buure us dem Berjische
met Mordsjebröll uns zor Hilf
d'r Knöppel draach, d'r Fläjel jöpp
su kämpfte mer Sick aan Sick

An all-time classic :)

@jokrol324
no, yes, sort of
communist; maybe
Marxist; no
the diggers creed is 350years old and still a valid critique of the relationship between the rich and the poor

'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests, stand up now...

my spade,hoe and plow are ready!