Cannot forget when I met Dick Gaughan in flesh for the first time. I first heard of him on the French radio in the seventies, when he sang in a folk venue in the town of Le Mans. Then I came across these two jewels from 1976 and 1977 : "Kist of gold" and"Copper and Brass", where Dick gave us a taste of the powerful and incredible energy of his guitar skills.When I moved to Britain, I got to know more about his lyrics. To this day, he is one of my heroes in the Pantheon of folk and political singers in UK and Ireland, next to Billy Bragg, Christy Moore, Ewan MC Coll and Andy Irvine. The people you want to listen to when you had your share of depressing news from our pathetic politicians...
Dick is an international treasure. The world is a better place for musicians and singer/songwriters like this guy. I discovered him from listening to folk music programs on public radio -- probably a college station -- in Boston. He seems to have a leftist political philosophy and I do not but I love his music.
Honestly these Spectrum treasures are RUclips gold. Gaughan is a master, from the absolute beauty of Now Westlin Winds to this, the drivingly declamatory best version of the song.
No one has the right to buy or sell the Earth for personal gain..I can't help keep going back to DG's Handful of Earth. Brill live performance. Thanks.
I first heard this (like many I suspect) from Billy Braggs 2nd LP. On the back of that bought Leon Rosselsons and Roy Baileys LP. But I always remember reading the liner notes on Dicks album...saying it was a reminder that the English were the first to be enslaved (paraphrasing). As an Irishman (living in London at the time) that alone woke me up to the richness of English Folk music. Dick Gaughan is such a beautiful performer
Don't know about strange, but it shows how morally bankrupt England has become. The estate has been around for almost 100 years, but today about a quarter of the houses are owned by Russian oligarchs.
Fab song and and Dick Gaughan sings it with true conviction and passion. That gritty Scots voice and the drive-forward guitar playing.... Leon Rosselson the songwriter deserves to be better known, and some of his songs are on U-tube
Dick Gaughan. What a voice. Grew up listening to your music through ma old man and now I have the same respect for you (as well as Dougie Maclean) as ma old man had. Legend.
The song is about the diggers of 1649 rising against Cromwell to try to reassert rights which had been stolen from common Englishmen in 1066, rights which are still witheld to this day. The old boy network still ensure that the sons of the Normans hold us in their yolk and that they and their sons retain the real hold on power. Anyone who isn't privvy to this set -try to get a position in the cicvil service, ambassadorships etc and see wherefore I speak. The sons of Norman robber barons stiil hold the real power in our 'free' land.
+Mehdi Husain In 1649 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 lands 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 Now everywhere the walls Rise 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 feeds the rich While poor men starve We work, we eat together We need no swords We will not bow to masters Or pay rent to the lords We are free men Though we are poor You Diggers all stand up for glory Stand up now From the men of property The orders came They sent the hired men and troopers To wipe out the Diggers' claim Tear down their cottages Destroy their corn They were dispersed Only the vision lingers on You poor take courage You rich take care This earth was made a common treasury For everyone to share All things in common Al people one We come in peace The orders came to cut them down.
I am a HUGE Billy Bragg fan so I don't say this lightly... I prefer this version to Billy's :/ God, I feel like I've just cheated on him, but honestly this version is beautiful. It has just the right amount of gutso and anger.
In fairness most of us came to this song via Billy! Love (most of) the versions of this...but Dick does a cracking job here. I have the Leon Rosselson LP that it's from...but I was interested to see that THIS version pre-dates Billy's.
Yes you are right, sorry, I was thinking of The World Turned Upside Down an English ballad. It was first published on a broadsheet in 1643 as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. Parliament believed the holiday should be a solemn occasion, and outlawed traditional English Christmas celebrations. There are several versions of the lyrics. It is sung to the tune of another ballad, "When the King Enjoys His Own Again".
Leon Rosselson certainly DID write this. You may be confusing it with another song he wrote about the Ranter Abiezer Coppe. Alternatively, you may be confusing it with "Stand Up You Diggers Now", which Leon also sings sometimes. He didn't write that one -the Diggers did in 1649, and it's one of those broadsheet songs with lots of verses.
@i1and1i I'm Scottish, however I certainly wouldn't think I was adding anything sensible here by describing the Diggers as being racist. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially when we are able to look away back to the 17th century. I suspect that if the Diggers had been Scots making an "Appeale to all Scotsmen" your comment would have been very different indeed. Given the times and conditions they were living in, a lot of the political aims of the Diggers were very good.
Paul Lavan I think that's a little unfair. Passionate as I am for independence, in many ways what the SNP wanted just didn't go far enough - an 'Independent' Scotland with an English head of state and the British pound as its currency? For quite a lot of people, the idea that we'd be dependent on the good will of the central bank of a country whose government is dead set against us using their currency looked like a real problem. Many more were just scared of change. I think they were wrong, but I'm uncomfortable with branding that as treachery - especially as we still need to win over a lot of those people if we're going to get an independent Scotland next time!
Could he be thinking of You noble Diggers all (The Diggers Song) which is a setting of Winstanley's words sung by Leon, Roy and Sue Harris on "if I knew who the enemy was" 1979
to be fair,sometimes people shorten things on RUclips due to the accursed 500 Chara limit. I often ignore the ' in words like Isn't, for example. To save room.
It seems most likely the Diggers weren't actually on the hill (where the gated millionaires' estate is now) but just below it on the south side, near the Byfleet Road, which was there then. The hill itself is sandy and infertile and they weren't stupid. Their site is either the golf course now (and that's as bad as the gated estate) or else it was the other (south) side of the road. They called it George Hill, of course, because they didn't do "saints".
There were lots of ways of then being a "protest-ant." Read Christopher Hill, or David Petegorsky's "Radical Ideas in the English Revolution"---lots of people had visions of or tried movements to create a world beyond money.
+Micheal Carney See also writings of Gerard Winstanley, founder/leader of the Diggers, who wrote that "a true commonwealth" would not need money or any promise of a "glory" or life beyond Nature (as most people of main churches espoused): hence their motto "Glory Here." Does that possibly clarify?
+Micheal Carney No sir. But their versions of both were what you might call radically unique (except among fellow Ranters, etc.)---closer to "the Jesus who cleansed the temple" model than their better-known contemporaries.
@@markirish8907 In the last general election people below the age of 39 voted in majority for Labour, over 39 voted Conservative. This is a pattern that holds in every country I've looked at and where I've seen stats that compare political tendencies at the same age Gen Z is the most left leaning one..
I made this ages ago...but why don't we do it? This world needs change. facebook dot com/thenewlevellers I'll be off for a week- but see what you think!
Quite. Do these sound like the words of a racist? "And here I end, having put my arm as far as my strength will go to advance Righteousness; I have Writ, I have Acted, I have Peace: now I must wait to see the Spirit do his work in the hearts of others, and whether England shall be the first Land, or some others, wherein Truth shall sit down in triumph". Gerrard Winstanley -1650
Survive the Jive A project to reclaim scriptural veracity from it's interested appropriators, to resist enclosure of the commons, rejecting the term 'God' in favour of 'Reason', welcoming other sects onto the hill, and then later quietly abiding with the Quakers after the suppression… fundamentalist? Winstanley may have been many things, but I don't think he was trapped in dogma.
Great performance of great song (by Leon Rosselson). Billy Bragg in his radical days also did a great electric punk-meets-folk version, before he got rich and started voting Lib-Dem...
When ever you are feeling down, overwhelmed, or beaten down this song will fucking pick you up.
“You poor take courage
You rich take care “
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What are you talking about, this song is so depressing, it's brilliant but depressing.
All things in common all people one, the order came to cut them down. Those words always have me fighting back the tears......
The diggers were not globalist traitors
Cannot forget when I met Dick Gaughan in flesh for the first time. I first heard of him on the French radio in the seventies, when he sang in a folk venue in the town of Le Mans. Then I came across these two jewels from 1976 and 1977 : "Kist of gold" and"Copper and Brass", where Dick gave us a taste of the powerful and incredible energy of his guitar skills.When I moved to Britain, I got to know more about his lyrics. To this day, he is one of my heroes in the Pantheon of folk and political singers in UK and Ireland, next to Billy Bragg, Christy Moore, Ewan MC Coll and Andy Irvine. The people you want to listen to when you had your share of depressing news from our pathetic politicians...
Dick is an international treasure. The world is a better place for musicians and singer/songwriters like this guy. I discovered him from listening to folk music programs on public radio -- probably a college station -- in Boston. He seems to have a leftist political philosophy and I do not but I love his music.
Honestly these Spectrum treasures are RUclips gold. Gaughan is a master, from the absolute beauty of Now Westlin Winds to this, the drivingly declamatory best version of the song.
No one has the right to buy or sell the Earth for personal gain..I can't help keep going back to DG's Handful of Earth. Brill live performance. Thanks.
I first heard this (like many I suspect) from Billy Braggs 2nd LP. On the back of that bought Leon Rosselsons and Roy Baileys LP. But I always remember reading the liner notes on Dicks album...saying it was a reminder that the English were the first to be enslaved (paraphrasing). As an Irishman (living in London at the time) that alone woke me up to the richness of English Folk music. Dick Gaughan is such a beautiful performer
we need more people like Dick ... speak the truth forget the politicians
Strange thing is that St Georges Hill at Weybridge is now an exclusive gated private estate. Formerly home to John Lennon and Cliff RIchard.
Don't know about strange, but it shows how morally bankrupt England has become. The estate has been around for almost 100 years, but today about a quarter of the houses are owned by Russian oligarchs.
Dick Emery and a few more lived there also so did I but not so grand live in nanny job.
@@jannebekker7936 Noticed recently that Mike Pinder from the Moody Blues lived there too.
Oh you are awful! But a Like you!
@@jannebekker7936 2:26
If people want to learn more about the Diggers and the Early Socialists you should read "The World Truned Upside Down" by Christopher Hill
I should look into that :D
Will do thankyou.xx
Incomparable. The greatest Scot folk singer/guitarist of all time.
This is a rare gem. Thank you for sharing.❤❤❤
Thanks for posting. If anyone is interested in the story of the Diggers there's a great film made in the 70's called Winstanley.
Where is it available? I was surprised I can only find a few short clips on RUclips.
Fab song and and Dick Gaughan sings it with true conviction and passion. That gritty Scots voice and the drive-forward guitar playing....
Leon Rosselson the songwriter deserves to be better known, and some of his songs are on U-tube
RUclips
Dick Gaughan. What a voice. Grew up listening to your music through ma old man and now I have the same respect for you (as well as Dougie Maclean) as ma old man had. Legend.
Dick is brilliant. a light of his own.
This guy is so fkn based and I totally agree with him
The man does'nt need superstardom, He's better than that! If he wanted it there's no one better.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful song by this wonderful man. God bless all from Patrick
The song is about the diggers of 1649 rising against Cromwell to try to reassert rights which had been stolen from common Englishmen in 1066, rights which are still witheld to this day. The old boy network still ensure that the sons of the Normans hold us in their yolk and that they and their sons retain the real hold on power. Anyone who isn't privvy to this set -try to get a position in the cicvil service, ambassadorships etc and see wherefore I speak. The sons of Norman robber barons stiil hold the real power in our 'free' land.
check out the book "The Wake" by Paul Kingsnorth....
Too true. The Normans were the ruthless Vikings who interbred with the beaurocratic French. Unfortunately, a world dominating combination.
@@angelahoney6557 they did ban slavery, though. So it wasn't all bad!
Dick Gaughan has a freakin great voice - one of my favourites.
He is king forever of this music.
What, please, is a ‘freaking’ great voice ?
This song is so beautiful.
I can barely understand the words though.
I discovered Gaughan thanks to Stewart Lee's autobiography.
+Mehdi Husain
In 1649
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 lands 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
Now everywhere the walls
Rise 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 feeds the rich
While poor men starve
We work, we eat together
We need no swords
We will not bow to masters
Or pay rent to the lords
We are free men
Though we are poor
You Diggers all stand up for glory
Stand up now
From the men of property
The orders came
They sent the hired men and troopers
To wipe out the Diggers' claim
Tear down their cottages
Destroy their corn
They were dispersed
Only the vision lingers on
You poor take courage
You rich take care
This earth was made a common treasury
For everyone to share
All things in common
Al people one
We come in peace
The orders came to cut them down.
Yes ! Thanks a lot !
After I commented, I immediately looked for the lyrics. But you did the right thing. They belong here.
Cheers !
Thanks for the lyrics
He has a strong and clear voice. He has an accent, as do we all, but his diction is good.
our teacher of socialist political thought made this the song of week 2 :)) love her
What are the chances of this ever being played on the BBC again? Fucking none.
Thanks for this! - Dick Gaughan is a legend
Makes me smile and even hope.
Great performance of this stirring song.
I am a HUGE Billy Bragg fan so I don't say this lightly... I prefer this version to Billy's :/ God, I feel like I've just cheated on him, but honestly this version is beautiful. It has just the right amount of gutso and anger.
In fairness most of us came to this song via Billy! Love (most of) the versions of this...but Dick does a cracking job here. I have the Leon Rosselson LP that it's from...but I was interested to see that THIS version pre-dates Billy's.
@@ENGABU1 Leon Rosselson's pre dates both.He's worth checking out ,too.
@@maxcuthbert100 oh I LOVE Leon's ORIGINAL...I even have the vinyl LP! with Roy Bailey (tbh bought it because of "They're Going To Build A Motorway"
I came to this song in the 70's via DG. Thank heavens for that!
Yes you are right, sorry, I was thinking of The World Turned Upside Down an English ballad. It was first published on a broadsheet in 1643 as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. Parliament believed the holiday should be a solemn occasion, and outlawed traditional English Christmas celebrations. There are several versions of the lyrics. It is sung to the tune of another ballad, "When the King Enjoys His Own Again".
thanks for uploading mate never heard this version before it really nice
Oh wow, I never realized this wasn't a Billy Bragg original! Awesome!
@flashmob3 '.....The God of greed who feeds the Rich while Poormen Starve'......Love that too....
Is Dick still touring these days. Love to see him.
Sadly for all of us, no. But I think he did a show or two last fall.
What a great voice for a great song.
thank you for sharing this
One word SUPERB thanks!!
Leon Rosselson certainly DID write this. You may be confusing it with another song he wrote about the Ranter Abiezer Coppe. Alternatively, you may be confusing it with "Stand Up You Diggers Now", which Leon also sings sometimes. He didn't write that one -the Diggers did in 1649, and it's one of those broadsheet songs with lots of verses.
Superb rendition
Love this tune. I have it on a CD compendium of good music.
Its not 'roots' by any chance is it? That CD is how I found this and Kate Rusby as her song 'drowned lovers' is on there.
he is so awesome!
Saw him play this in August.
"You Diggers stand up for Glory, stand up now!" Damn right.
Nothing wrong with these sentiments, if only more of us believed it.
@i1and1i I'm Scottish, however I certainly wouldn't think I was adding anything sensible here by describing the Diggers as being racist. Hindsight is a wonderful thing, especially when we are able to look away back to the 17th century. I suspect that if the Diggers had been Scots making an "Appeale to all Scotsmen" your comment would have been very different indeed. Given the times and conditions they were living in, a lot of the political aims of the Diggers were very good.
Diggers are also ANZAC soldiers originally from WW1
@@UriahD85 yeah we know, but this has nothing to do with them.
the great Dick Gaughan... so wonderful...
Great video!
This is timeless.
5 million in Scotland, 7 billion in the world - You take on the Scottish, You take on the World :)
HTT Alexander Now is the time brother :)
It was such a shame so many Scots turned traitor in the referendum then, wasn't it?
Paul Lavan I think that's a little unfair. Passionate as I am for independence, in many ways what the SNP wanted just didn't go far enough - an 'Independent' Scotland with an English head of state and the British pound as its currency? For quite a lot of people, the idea that we'd be dependent on the good will of the central bank of a country whose government is dead set against us using their currency looked like a real problem.
Many more were just scared of change. I think they were wrong, but I'm uncomfortable with branding that as treachery - especially as we still need to win over a lot of those people if we're going to get an independent Scotland next time!
The Lost Hist,ory Channel TKTC
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The Scottish are settled Irish..but the Irish never stopped fighting.
Brilliant still
What a Song. Amazing. True.👌💯
What a player!
a voice that's meant to be heard
Love this song...Sorry though! Keepin' the Swords!
Could he be thinking of You noble Diggers all (The Diggers Song) which is a setting of Winstanley's words sung by Leon, Roy and Sue Harris on "if I knew who the enemy was" 1979
We need a New Leveller party. Level society and have root and branch reforms.
to be fair,sometimes people shorten things on RUclips due to the accursed 500 Chara limit. I often ignore the ' in words like Isn't, for example. To save room.
that oen i'd love to see .... is the theme the same?
Yea. Definitely a Rosselson song.
Solidarity forever! Up the rebels!
Muito bom e com música linda
oh yes
It seems most likely the Diggers weren't actually on the hill (where the gated millionaires' estate is now) but just below it on the south side, near the Byfleet Road, which was there then. The hill itself is sandy and infertile and they weren't stupid. Their site is either the golf course now (and that's as bad as the gated estate) or else it was the other (south) side of the road. They called it George Hill, of course, because they didn't do "saints".
'the god of greed who feeds the rich while poor men starve....' Stand up for Glory, Stand Up Now....
There were lots of ways of then being a "protest-ant." Read Christopher Hill, or David Petegorsky's "Radical Ideas in the English Revolution"---lots of people had visions of or tried movements to create a world beyond money.
+Micheal Carney See also writings of Gerard Winstanley, founder/leader of the Diggers, who wrote that "a true commonwealth" would not need money or any promise of a "glory" or life beyond Nature (as most people of main churches espoused): hence their motto "Glory Here." Does that possibly clarify?
+Micheal Carney No sir. But their versions of both were what you might call radically unique (except among fellow Ranters, etc.)---closer to "the Jesus who cleansed the temple" model than their better-known contemporaries.
Anyone know what tuning he is using here?
his old website said (referring to the studio version) " The guitar tuning used here was DADDAE with a capo at the 2nd fret."
Long live the Diggers
AMO ! ⚖
Wigan Diggers Festival 7th September 2013. Home Town of Gerrard Winstanley.
This should be the Wall Street protesters' anthem..
too right ... this IS the Leon Rosselson song!
@i1and1i
'Norman base blood'. In this case the ruling classes were of Norman descent. Its a class conciousness thing not a racial one.
Winstanley
weare not empire are you ready -TO SHARE
we will not bow to masters, we will not pay to lords
Anyone know where I could find chords/tabs for this?
tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/b/billy_bragg/world_turned_upside_down_crd.htm
Three chords and the truth,mate !
Dick Gaughan + Wacholder: Trotz alledem (Live 1985 - Festival d. pol. Liedes, Volksbühne Berlin) ruclips.net/video/FXwz4nk4UXY/видео.html
Wigan 3rd Diggers Festival 2013. 7th September
Anyone know if that's DADGAG he uses? I'm trying to get this one down...
Yes,I think so......that or maybe CGCGCD.But I think it's DADGAD,I remember seeing him play it a lot,close up,many times.
I have no idea who this guy is, but I'm going to go ahead and guess that he's not a capitalist.
sorry - but you got schooled fair and proper. this IS the Leon Rosselson song.....
Why can I see Melanie Phillips in the suggestions?! Urgh
So powerful - in a way that most youth of today probably wouldn't even comprehend because it isn't in "hastag" format...
Lots of the young people I know would understand it perfectly - but then they are hard working folk musicians .
Sod off. Gen Z is more left leaning than those before him. While Gen X have sold their souls to the right at best and far right at worse.
@@Lynnefromlyn great
@@mnm1273 sure
@@markirish8907 In the last general election people below the age of 39 voted in majority for Labour, over 39 voted Conservative. This is a pattern that holds in every country I've looked at and where I've seen stats that compare political tendencies at the same age Gen Z is the most left leaning one..
I made this ages ago...but why don't we do it? This world needs change. facebook dot com/thenewlevellers
I'll be off for a week- but see what you think!
much more passionate than the Rosselon version: good performance.
Is that some tuning other than the standard?
Quite. Do these sound like the words of a racist?
"And here I end, having put my arm as far as my strength will go to advance Righteousness; I have Writ, I have Acted, I have Peace: now I must wait to see the Spirit do his work in the hearts of others, and whether England shall be the first Land, or some others, wherein Truth shall sit down in triumph".
Gerrard Winstanley -1650
leon rosselson didn't write this, he wrote a different song with the same title.
Yes he did and he recorded it in 1975
mainlynorfolk.info/leon.rosselson/records/thatsnotthewayitsgottobe.html
cool song, but diggers were just fundamentalists really
What fundamentalist anti-landlordists? Or... er... what?
no, literally fundamentalist proddies
Where'd you get that from? Gerrard Winstanley was a Quaker, not a sect usually known for their fundamentalism.
Survive the Jive A project to reclaim scriptural veracity from it's interested appropriators, to resist enclosure of the commons, rejecting the term 'God' in favour of 'Reason', welcoming other sects onto the hill, and then later quietly abiding with the Quakers after the suppression… fundamentalist? Winstanley may have been many things, but I don't think he was trapped in dogma.
What a load of cobblers Survive the Jive! DO some historical background for god's sake, and don't bring your nasty little prejudices here.
As a working class Scouser I can say without hesitation that the working class are dreadful
St. George's Hill, the most expensive estate of houses outside London ,, oops.
Great performance of great song (by Leon Rosselson). Billy Bragg in his radical days also did a great electric punk-meets-folk version, before he got rich and started voting Lib-Dem...
@i1and1i Product of a different time, friend. Racism was even more rampant at the time than it is today.
The people of earth will always be divided. This shit show isn't living, look at how pathetic the world is today.
bloody marvellous