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T:The Digger's Song
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W:You noble Diggers all, stand up now, stand up now,
W:You noble Diggers all, stand up now,
W:The wast land to maintain, seeing Cavaliers by name
W:Your digging does maintain, and persons all defame
W:Stand up now, stand up now.
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W:Your houses they pull down, stand up now, stand up now,
W:Your houses they pull down, stand up now.
W:Your houses they pull down to fright your men in town,
W:But the gentry must come down, and the poor shall wear the crown.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:With spades and hoes and plowes, stand up now, stand up now,
W:With spades and hoes and plowes stand up now,
W:Your freedom to uphold, seeing Cavaliers are bold
W:To kill you if they could, and rights from you to hold.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:Theire self-will is theire law, stand up now, stand up now
W:Theire self-will is theire law, stand up now.
W:Since tyranny came in they count it now no sin
W:To make a gaole a gin, to serve poor men therein.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:The gentrye are all round, stand up now, stand up now,
W:The gentrye are all round, stand up now.
W:The gentrye are all round, on each side they are found,
W:Theire wisdom's so profound, to cheat us of our ground.
W:Stand up now, stand up now.
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W:The lawyers they conjoyne, stand up now, stand up now,
W:The lawyers they conjoyne, stand up now,
W:To arrest you they advise, such fury they devise,
W:The devill in them lies, and hath blinded both their eyes.
W:Stand up now, stand up now.
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W:The clergy they come in, stand up now, stand up now,
W:The clergy they come in, stand up now.
W:The clergy they come in, and say it is a sin
W:That we should now begin, our freedom for to win.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:The tithe they yet will have, stand up now,stand up now,
W:The tithes they yet will have, stand up now.
W:The tithes they yet will have, and lawyers their fees crave,
W:And this they say is brave, to make the poor their slave.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:'Gainst lawyers and gainst Priests, stand up now,stand up now,
W:'Gainst lawyers and gainst Priests stand up now.
W:For tyrants they are both even flatt against their oath,
W:To grant us they are loath free meat and drink and cloth.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:The club is all their law, stand up now, stand up now,
W:The club is all their law, stand up now.
W:The club is all their law to keep men in awe,
W:Buth they no vision saw to maintain such a law.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:The Cavaleers are foes, stand up now, stand up now,
W:The Cavaleers are foes, stand up now;
W:The Cavaleers are foes, themselves they do disclose
W:By verses not in prose to please the singing boyes.
W:Stand up now, Diggers all.
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W:To conquer them by love, come in now, come in now,
W:To conquer them by love, come in now;
W:To conquer them by love, as it does you behove,
W:For he is King above, noe power is like to love,
W:Glory heere, Diggers all.
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