World Turned Upside Down Chords by Dick Gaughan

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[Eb] _ In 1649, on St.
[Bb] George's Hill, [Ab] a ragged band they called the Diggers [Eb] came to show the [Bb] people's will.
They [Eb] defied the landlords, they defied [Bb] the laws, [Ab] they were the [Eb] dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs.
We come in peace, they said, to dig and [Bb] sow.
We [Ab] come to work the land in common [Eb] and to make the [Bbm] wasteland grow.
This [Eb] earth divided, we will [Bb] make whole, so [Ab] it can be a [Eb] common treasury for all.
The sin of property we do [Bb] disdain.
No [Ab] one has any right to buy and [Eb] sell the earth for [Bb] private gain [Eb] by theft and murder.
They [Bb] took the land, now [Ab] everywhere the [Eb] walls rise up at their command.
They make the laws to chain [Bb] us well.
[Eb] The [Ab] clergy dazzle us with heaven [Eb] or they damn us [Bbm] into hell.
[Eb] We will not worship the God [Bb] they serve.
[Eb] The God [Ab] of good age who [Eb] feeds the rich while poor men starve.
We work, we eat together, we [Bb] need no swords.
[Ab] We will not bow to masters [Eb] or [Bb] parents or the [Eb] lords.
We are free men, though we [Bb] are poor.
[Ab] You diggers all stand [Eb] up for glory, stand up now.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ the men of property the orders [Bb] came.
They [Ab] sent the hired men and troopers [Eb] to wipe [Bb] out the diggers' [Eb] claim, tear down their cottages, destroy [Bb] their corn.
[Eb] They were [Ab] dispersed, [Eb] only the vision _ lingers on.
_ You poor take courage, you [Bb] rich take care.
[Eb] The earth [Ab] was made a common treasury [Ebm] for [Bb] everyone to share [Eb] all things in common.
All [Bb] people one, [Ab] we come in peace.
The [Eb] order came to cut them down.
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