Billy bragg lyrics world turned upside down


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    Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down Lyrics


    In
    To St. George's Hill,
    A ragged band they called the Diggers
    Came to show the people's will
    They defied the landlords
    They defied the laws
    They were the dispossessed reclaiming what was theirs

    We come in peace they said
    To dig and sow
    We come to work the lands in common
    And to make the waste ground grow
    This earth divided
    We will make whole
    So it will be
    A common treasury for all

    The sin of property
    We do disdain
    No man has any right to buy and sell
    The earth for private gain
    By theft and murder
    They took the land
    Mow everywhere the walls
    Spring up at their command

    They make the laws
    To chain us well
    The clergy dazzle us with heaven
    Or they damn us into hell
    We will not worship
    The God they serve
    The God of greed who feed the rich
    While poor folk starve

    We work we eat together
    We need no swords
    We will not bow to the masters
    Or pay rent to the lords
    Still we are free
    Though we are poor
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