The Diggers Song chords by
Chumbawamba
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Key: B minor
Verse 1
Am
Am

C
C

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

You noble diggers all stand up now,
C
C

stand up now
Dm
Dm

C
C

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

You noble diggers all stand up now
F
F

C
C

The wasteland to maintain sin [un
known] cavaliers by name
Dm
Dm

Your digging does maintain and
Am
Am

persons all defame
Dm
Dm

C
C

Stand up now, stand up
Verse 2
Dm
Dm

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
Am
Am

But the gentry must come down and the poor
Verse 3
Dm
Dm

shall wear the crown
C
C

Stand up now diggers all
Dm
Dm

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

With spades and hoes and plows stand up now,
stand up now
With spades and hoes and plows,
stand up now
Verse 4
F
F

C
C

Your freedom to uphold sin [un
known] cavaliers are bold
Dm
Dm

To kill you if they could and
Am
Am

rights from you to hold
Dm
Dm

C
C

Dm
Dm

Stand up now diggers all
The gentry are all round stand up now, stand up now
Verse 5
Dm
Dm

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
Verse 6
C
C

Stand up now stand up now
Dm
Dm

C
C

Dm
Dm

Am
Am

The lawyers they conjoin stand
Dm
Dm

up now stand up now
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
F
F

C
C

To rescue they advise, such fury they devise,
Dm
Dm

the devil in them lies
C
C

And hath blinded both their
Verse 7
eyes
Dm
Dm

C
C

Dm
Dm

Stand up now, stand up now
Verse 8
Dm
Dm

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

The clergy they come in stand up now,
C
C

stand up now
Dm
Dm

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

The clergy they come in stand up now
F
F

C
C

The clergy they come in and say it is a sin
Dm
Dm

That we should now begin
Am
Am

our freedom for to win
Verse 9
Dm
Dm

C
C

Dm
Dm

Stand up now diggers all
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests
Am
Am

Dm
Dm

C
C

stand up now stand up now
Dm
Dm

'Gainst lawyers and
Am
Am

Dm
Dm

'gainst priests stand up now
F
F

For tyrants they are both,
C
C

even flat against their oath
Dm
Dm

To grant us they are loathe free
Verse 10
Dm
Dm

meat and
Am
Am

Dm
Dm

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

drink and cloth
Stand up now diggers all
C
C

Dm
Dm

Am
Am

The club is all their law,
Dm
Dm

C
C

stand up now stand up now
Dm
Dm

Am
Am

Dm
Dm

The club is all their law, stand up now
F
F

The club is all their law,
C
C

to keep all men in awe
Dm
Dm

That they no vision saw to
Am
Am

maintain such a law
Dm
Dm

Stand up now diggers all

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