Name: The Digger's Song
Duration: P00H03M46S
Description: A song written by the Diggers who set up their commune at St George's Hill in 1649 on the premise that common land cannot be owned and therefore should be allowed to be used freely by the common people, and not gifted and owned by the few.

The Digger's Song

from Through Dark Polished Glass by The Rowan Amber Mill

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A song written by the Diggers who set up their commune at St George's Hill in 1649 on the premise that common land cannot be owned and therefore should be allowed to be used freely by the common people, and not gifted and owned by the few.

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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, stand up now.
The gentry are all 'round, stand up now, stand up now.
The gentry are all 'round, stand up now.
The gentry are all 'round on each side they are found.
Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground.
Stand up now, Diggers all, 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 devise.
The devil in them lies and hath blinded both their eyes.
Stand up now, Diggers all, stand up now.
The cavaliers are foes, stand up now, stand up now.
The cavaliers are foes, stand up now, stand up now.
The cavaliers are foes, themselves they do disclose.
By verses not in prose to please the singing bows.
Stand up now, Diggers all, stand up now.

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from Through Dark Polished Glass, released August 22, 2022
Trad arranged Stephen Stannard.
Played, sung, produced and mixed by Stephen Stannard.

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The Rowan Amber Mill Devon, UK

Since 2007 The Rowan Amber Mill have been purveyors of Woodland Folkadelica/alt-Folk. Releases include: "folk devils & moral panics", "midsummers" and "Heartwood". The Book of the Lost (with Emily Jones). Silent Night Songs (with Angeline Morrison).The folk horror collection Harvest the Ears. The synth album Follows Shortly (as Making Tea For Robots). They are half of Rowan:Morrison. ... more

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