Chumbawamba – The Diggers Song (Guitar)

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[Originally sung acappella; chords added; Verse 2 in original but left out by Chumbawamba] [Verse 1]
Em                             G             D
You noble diggers all stand up now, stand up now

Em                Bm           Em
You noble diggers all stand up now

    G                          D
The wasteland to maintain sing cavaliers by name

     Em                        Bm
Your digging does maintain and persons all defame

         Em   Bm       Em
Stand up now, stand up now
[Verse 2]
Em                                  G             D
Your houses they pull down stand up now, stand up now

Em                    Bm             Em
Your houses they pull down, stand up now

     G                        D
Your houses they pull down to fright your men in town

        Em                            Bm
But the gentry must come down and the poor shall wear the crown

         Em   Bm     Em
Stand up now diggers all
[Verse 3]
Em                                      G             D
With spades and hoes and plows stand up now, stand up now

Em                       Bm              Em
With spades and hoes and plows, stand up now

     G                      D
Your freedom to uphold sing cavaliers are bold

   Em                         Bm
To kill you if they could and rights from you to hold

         Em   Bm     Em
Stand up now diggers all
[Verse 4]
Em                                G            D
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now stand up now

Em                    Bm           Em
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now

   G                        D
To rescue they advise, such fury they devise

    Em                          Bm
The devil in them lies and hath blinded both their eyes

         Em   Bm       Em
Stand up now, stand up now
[Verse 5]
Em                               G             D
The clergy they come in stand up now, stand up now

Em                   Bm          Em
The clergy they come in stand up now

    G                        D
The clergy they come in and say it is a sin

     Em                       Bm
That we should now begin our freedom for to win

         Em   Bm     Em
Stand up now diggers all
[Verse 6]
Em                                           G            D
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests stand up now stand up now

Em                          Bm               Em
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst priests stand up now

    G                           D
For tyrants they are both, even flat against their oath

   Em                            Bm
To grant us they are loathe free meat and drink and cloth

         Em   Bm     Em
Stand up now diggers all
[Verse 7]
Em                                G             D
The gentry are all round stand up now, stand up now

Em                 Bm             Em
The gentry are all round stand up now

    G                       D
The gentry are all round on each side they are found

      Em                    Bm
Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground

         Em   Bm      Em
Stand up now stand up now
[Verse 8]
Em                                  G             D
The club is all their law, stand up now stand up now

Em                    Bm            Em
The club is all their law, stand up now

    G                         D
The club is all their law, to keep all men in awe

     Em                        Bm
That they no vision saw to maintain such a law

         Em   Bm     Em
Stand up now diggers all