Chords for Chumbawamba - The Diggers' Song

_ You noble diggers all, stand up now, stand up now!
You noble diggers all, stand up now!
_ The wasteland to maintain, seen cavaliers by name, Your digging does maintain, and persons all defame, Stand up now, stand [Ebm] up now!
_ _ Your houses they pull [F] 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 [A] the gentry must [Db] come down, and [B] 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, seen 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 [Eb] round, _ _ _ _ [N] on _ _ _ _ each side they are found, Their wisdom so profound, to cheaters 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 arrest you they advise, such fury they [Db] devise, The devil in them lies, and hath [N] blinded both their eyes, Stand up now, stand up [Ebm] now!
_ The [N] clergy they come in, stand up now, stand up now!
The clergy they [Bb] come in, [Eb] stand up now!
_ The [G] clergy they come in, and say it is a [Ebm] 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 [N] now!
_ For tyrants they are both, even flat against their oath, To grant us they are loath, free meat and drink and cloth, Stand up now, [Abm] diggers all!
_ _ The club is all their law, stand up now, stand up now!
The club is [Bb] all their law, stand up [Eb] now!
_ [N] The club is all their law, to keep poor men in awe, But they no vision saw, to maintain such a law, Stand up now, diggers all! _
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