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Thread #169613   Message #4106708
Posted By: GeoffLawes
19-May-21 - 05:56 PM
Thread Name: Any May songs?
Subject: RE: Any May songs?


Since 1975, on the Saturday nearest to 17 May, Levellers' Day has been held in the Oxfordshire town of Burford. Levellers' Day commemorates the three Levellers, Private John Church, Corporal Perkins, and Cornet James who were executed there on 17 May 1649 following an army mutiny over pay and political demands.

Wikipedia: Levellers     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levellers#:~:text=The%20Levellers%20were%20a%20political,the%20law%20and%20religious%20tolerance.&
Wikipedia: Banbury mutiny    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banbury_mutiny
Wikipedia : Diggers' Song     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers%27_Song

THE DIGGERS’ SONG
by Gerrard Winstanley

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 maintain, and persons all defame,
Stand up now, stand up now. ,

Your houses they pull down, stand up now, stand up now, ,
Your houses they pull down, stand up now. ,
Your houses they pull down to fright your men in town, ,
But the gentry must come down, and the poor shall wear the crown. Stand up now, Diggers all.


The Diggers Song (You Noble Diggers All)- Farrell Family    
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TFtf8cdkhk
The Diggers' Song -Chumbawamba     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OA4FTIz2Zrw
Diggers' Song · Lady Maisery     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YIiMYfLOYY
The Diggers' Song · Windborne   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2PsCFabsLQ
Winstanley Digger Song     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfrC6fbWmcc
You Noble Diggers All · Leon Rosselson     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BULOXTCP4iU
March of the Levellers - The Digger´s Song - The World Turned Upside Down    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ch9zYXd20Y