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The World Turned Upside Down
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In sixteen forty-nine to St. George's Hill
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A ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the people's will
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They defied the landlords, they defied the laws
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They were the dispossesed reclaiming what was theirs
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'We come in peace,' they said, 'to dig and sow'
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'We come to work the land in common and to make the wasteground grow'
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'This Earth divided, we will make whole'
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'So it can be a common treasury for all'
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'The sin of property we do disdain'
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'No one has any right to buy or sell the earth for private gain'
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'By theft and murder they took the land'
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'Now everywhere the walls spring up at their command'
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'They make the laws to chain us well'
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'The clergy dazzle us with heaven or they damn us into hell'
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'We will not worship the god the serve'
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'The god of greed who feeds the rich whilst pepole starve'
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'We work, we eat together, we take up swords'
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'We will not bow to the masters or pay rent to the lords'
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'We are free people though we are poor'
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You Diggers all stand up for glory, stand up now
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The World Turned Upside Down
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| Chumbawamba |
