English Protest Song - The Diggers' Song

The Diggers' Song is a seventeeth-century ballad attributed to Gerrard Winstanley, the founder of the True Levellers group (also known as the Diggers), a radical Protestant political movement.

Motivated by the verse Acts 4:32 - "And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common." - the Diggers advocated a form of Christian socialist agrarianism with communal, democratic ownership of land.


Recording credit: Leon Rosselson, If I Knew Who the Enemy Was


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