Dick Gaughan - World Turned Upside Down (BBC 1982)

Dick Gaughan from the BBC arts series Specturm in 1982. The audio is a tiny (but annoying) bit out of sync. Sorry, first attempt at converting from VHS. When I improve I'll re-post!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• folk
• scottish
• celtic
• Gaughan
• World Turned Upside Down

[flashmob3]

WE WILL NOT BOW TO MASTERS OR PAY RENT TO THE LORDS!

love that

[TheSoulboy90]

Beautiful piece, thanks for sharing this great performance! A real socialist doing a great song of the people, the very definition of "Folk" music!

[1sosalini]

@FolkieFudged

[docdaneekaflies]

@i1and1i

'Norman base blood'. In this case the ruling classes were of Norman descent. Its a class conciousness thing not a racial one.

[lewars1912]

@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.

[corntbreet]

fantastic! Gerrard Winstanley born in Wigan. Wigan Diggers Festival. Check it out on facebook.

[mickystoned]

@i1and1i The Diggers were not a proto-EDL , "Break in pieces quickly the Band of particular Propriety [property], disown this oppressing Murder, Opression and Thievery of Buying and Selling of Land, owning of landlords and paying of Rents and give thy Free Consent to make the Earth a Common Treasury without grumbling...that *all* may enjoy the benefit of their Creation". Doesn't sound very "exclusive" nor nationalistic from Winstanley?

[stev1963hit]

@i1and1i One of my oldest friends is a militant Scot & I have a massive respect for your country,but your analysis is lazy mate.The Scots only came in on the side of Parliament on condition that Presbyterianism was forcibly introduced into England(which most Roundhead soldiers & ordinary people were dead against).Then,when they couldnt get thier way they switched sides & tried to enforce an unpopular tyrant back onto the people!The Diggers wanted freedom,the Scots did not-thank god for Dunbar!

[KennBurch]

No...there was no racism in the DIggers' choosing solely to appeal to "Englishmen". In Winstanley's day, Scotland was an independent country, and would remain so until the Scots Parliament was bribed into passing the "Act of Union" in 1707-an act that Robert Burns would later bitterly commemorate in his poem(later put to music)"Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation".

The Diggers would have been mortally opposed to any efforts to impose English rule over Scotland, or continue it over Ireland.

[ArtoriousRex44]

This should be the Wall Street protesters' anthem..