The Diggers Song Lyrics - Chumbawamba

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