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The Diggers Song
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The Diggers (also known as Levellers and Diggers ) is a 17th century ballad, in terms of content a protest song concerned with land rights, inspired by the Diggers movement, composed by Gerrard Winstanley. The lyrics were published in 1894 by the Camden Society. It is sung to a version of the family of tunes later used for Jack Hall, Captain Kidd and Admiral John Benbow, which according to Palmer was first printed in 1714. • • A modernized version of the song called The World Turned Upside Down (not to be confused with the 17th century ballad of the same title) was composed by Leon Rosselson in 1975, taken into the charts in 1985 by Billy Bragg and also performed by John McCutcheon, Oysterband, Dick Gaughan, Karan Casey, Chumbawamba (the version on the EP Timebomb - the song by the same name on English Rebel Songs is not the 'In 1649' one), Attila the Stockbroker, Maggie Holland, Chris Foster, and The Bradleys among others. • • 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 ! • • Der Geist der Stärke und die Furcht Gottes sei mit dir, du erbärmliche Gemeinde! Nachdem dich die Schmachbücher zum Teil scheu und auch aufs allerfrechst gemacht haben, ist's über die Maßen ganz hoch vonnöten, das aufstehend Übel zuvorkommen mit Erweisung christlicher Meisterschaft, welche zu dieser Zeit nicht anders eröffnet mag werden denn mit Auslegung der Heiligen Schrift in der Lehre des Geistes Christi durch die Vergleichung aller Geheimnisse und Urteile Gottes. Denn es haben alle Urteile das höchst Gegenteil bei ihnen selber. Wo sie aber nicht zusammen verfaßt werden, mag keines ganz und gar verstanden werden (wie hell oder klar es ist) ohne des andern unaussprechlichen Schaden. Das ist die Grundsuppe aller böswichtigen Zertrennung. • • Zitat von Thomas Müntzer (auch Münzer,* um 1489 in Stolberg (Harz); † 27. Mai 1525 bei Mühlhausen) • http://www.mlwerke.de/mu/mu_002.htm
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