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[Verse 1]
[C]You noble diggers all stand [Am]up
now, stand up [C]now
You noble diggers all stand up now
The wasteland to maintain sin
[unknown] cavaliers by name
Your digging does maintain and
person[G]s all [Am]defame
[C]Stand

[Verse 2]
up now, stand up now
Your houses [F]they pull down [C]stand [E]up now,
stand up now
Your [Am]houses [D]they [Am]pull [D]down,
[G]stand up now
Your houses they [C]pull down to
fright your men in town

[Verse 3]
But [Am]the [C]gentry must come[F] down and[C]
the [F]poor shall wear the [G]crown
Stand up now diggers [C]all[F][G][C]
With spades [G]and hoes [Am]and plows
stand up now, stand [C]up now
With [G]spades and hoes and
plows, stand [C]up now

[Verse 4]
Your freedom to uphold [C]sin
[unknown] cavaliers are [G]bold[Am]
[C]To kill [G]you if they could and
[C]rights from you to hold
[E]Stand up now diggers all

[Verse 5]
The [Am]gentry are all round stand
up now, stand up [D]now
The [G]gentry [C]are all round sta[G]nd up [Am]now
[C]The gentry are all round [G]on each
[C]sid[F]e the are fou[G]nd
Their [C]wisdom so profound to
cheat us of our ground
[G]Stand up now stand up

[Verse 6]
[Am]now[C]
[G]The[C] lawyers the[G]y conjoi[Am]n
stand [C]up now stand up now
The lawyers [G]they [C]conjoin [E]stand up now
To rescue [Am]they advise, [D]such fury [G]they devise,
the [C]devil in them [G]lies

[Verse 7]
And hath [Am]blinded both their eyes
Stand [C]up [G]now, stand [C]up [F]now

[Verse 8]
The clergy they come in [G]stand up now,
[C]stand up now
The clergy they come in stand [G]up now
The clergy they come in and say [Am]it is a sin
That [C]we [G]should now begin
[C]our freedom for to [G]win

[Verse 9]
Stand up now digger[Am]s all
'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst [C]priests
stand up now stand up now
[G]'Gainst lawyers and 'gainst
[C]priests s[E]tand up now
For tyrants they are [Am]both,
even flat against [D]their oath

[Verse 10]
To [G]grant us they are loathe free meat
and [C]drink and cloth
Stand [G]up [Am]now diggers a[C]ll
The [G]club [C]is [F]all their law, stand
up now stand up [G]now
The club is all [C]their law, stand up now
[G]The club is [Am]all [C]their law,
to [F]keep all men [G]in [C]awe[C]
That they [G]no vision [Am]saw to
[C]maintain suc[F]h a l[G]aw[C]
[C]Sta[F]nd up now diggers all[G]
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