World Turned Upside Down Cifras para ukulele

From the Between the Wars EP, or the CD version of Life's a Riot
 
 
[Intro]
 
Droning C
 
 
[Verse]
 
C                                                   G
In sixteen forty nine               to St George's Hill
         F                                      C
a ragged band they called the Diggers came to show the peoples'
                                                          will
C                                              G
they defied the Landlords,    they defied the laws
               F                 G                 C
they were the dispossessed,  reclaiming what was theirs
 
 
C                                             G
"we come in peace" they said,     to dig and sow
            F                               C
we come to work the lands in common and to make the wastegrounds
                                                             grow
C                                   G
this earth divided,     we will make whole
         F              G         C
so it will be a common treasury for all
 
 
C                                 G
the sin of property,    we do disdain
            F                             C
no man has any right to buy and sell the earth for private gain
C                                     G
by theft and murder     they took the land
           F                    G               C
now everywhere the walls spring up at their command
 
 
C                                   G
they make the laws       to chain us well
            F                             C
the clergy dazzle us with heaven or they damn us into hell
C                                   G
we will not worship     the god they serve
             F                  G                    C
the god of greed who feeds the rich while poor man starve
 
 
C                                     G
we work, we eat together    we need no swords
             F                         C
we will not bow to the masters or pay rent to the lords
C                                G
we are free men,    though we are poor
             F                 G             C
you diggers all stand up for glory stand up now
 
 
C                                        G
from the men of property,     the orders came
               F                             C
they sent the hired men and troopers to wipe out the Diggers'
                                                         claim
C                                    G
tear down their cottages, destroy their corn
              F                     G             C
they were dispersed, but still the vision lingers on
 
 
C                                        G
you poor take courage,    you rich take care
                F                         C
this earth was made a common treasury for everyone to share
C                                     G
all things in common,      all people one
             F                G                      C
we come in peace, the orders came to cut them down
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