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Diggers Song (Stand Up Now)

    You noble diggers all, stand up now, stand up now 
    You noble diggers all, stand up now
    The waste land to maintain, seeing Cavaliers by name
    Your digging does disdain, and persons all defame
    Stand up now, diggers all

    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 poor 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 ploughs, stand up now, stand up now
    With spades and hoes and ploughs, stand up now
    Your freedom to uphold, seeing Cavaliers are bold
    To kill you if they could, and rights from you to hold
    Stand up now, diggers all

    The lawyers they conjoin, stand up now, stand up now
    The lawyers they conjoin, stand up now
    To arrest you they advise, such fury they devise
    The Devil in them lies and hath blinded both their eyes
    Stand up now, diggers all

    To conquer them by love, come in now, come in now
    To conquer them by love, come in now
    To conquer them by love, as it does you behove
    For he is King Above, no power is like to love
    Glory here, diggers all