Key: C major•
Verse 1
C
Am
You noble diggers all stand up
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sin
[unknown] cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and
G
Am
persons all defame
Verse 2
up now, stand up now
F
C
E
Your houses they pull down stand up now,
stand up now
Am
D
Am
D
Your houses they pull down,
fright your men in town
Verse 3
Am
C
F
C
But the gentry must come down and
F
G
the poor shall wear the crown
C
F
G
C
Stand up now diggers all
G
Am
With spades and hoes and plows
Verse 4
G
Am
[unknown] cavaliers are bold
C
G
To kill you if they could and
Verse 5
G
C
G
Am
The gentry are all round stand up now
C
G
The gentry are all round on each
C
F
G
side the are found
cheat us of our ground
Verse 6
Am
C
now
G
C
G
Am
The lawyers they conjoin
G
C
E
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now
Am
D
G
To rescue they advise, such fury they devise,
C
G
the devil in them lies
Verse 7
C
G
C
F
Stand up now, stand up now
Verse 8
Am
The clergy they come in and say it is a sin
C
G
That we should now begin
C
G
our freedom for to win
Verse 9
stand up now stand up now
C
E
priests stand up now
Verse 10
G
Am
C
Stand up now diggers all
G
C
F
The club is all their law, stand
G
Am
C
The club is all their law,
F
G
C
C
to keep all men in awe
G
Am
That they no vision saw to
C
F
G
C
maintain such a law
C
F
G
Stand up now diggers all
C
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC Am G F E...
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