Billy Bragg Live "World Turned Upside Down"

Recorded 9th December 2010 at the Assembly Rooms, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.

Diggers/English Resistance Anthem written by Leon Rosselson and made famous by Billy and Chumbawamba -"The World Turned Upside Down"

Wiki Info:-

Gerrard Winstanley and 14 others published a pamphlet[2] in which they called themselves the True Levellers to distinguish their ideas from those of the Levellers. Once they put their idea into practice and started to cultivate common land, they became known as "Diggers" by both opponents and supporters. The Diggers' beliefs were informed by Winstanley's writings, which encompassed a worldview that envisioned an ecological interrelationship between humans and nature, acknowledging the inherent connections between people and their surroundings. Winstanley declared that "true freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation, and that is in the use of the earth".[5]

An undercurrent of political thought which has run through English society for many generations and resurfaced from time to time (for example, the Peasants' Revolt in 1381) was present in some of the political factions of the 17th century, including those who formed the Diggers, and held the common belief that England had become subjugated by the "Norman Yoke." This legend offered an explanation that at one time a golden Era had existed in England before the Norman Conquest in 1066. From the conquest on, the Diggers argued, the "common people of England" had been robbed of their birthrights and exploited by a foreign ruling class.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers

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[AaranAardvark]

@wesmatron indeed he is :-)

[wesmatron]

He's a legend.