A stalwart folk troubadour, Rosselson’s story of the 1649 Digger commune recovers a moment of English radicalism that sacked the landlords and reclaimed the land. Named after Christopher Hill’s classic history book, the song disavows the power and ownership of property that enforces inequality. It also records the suppression of the Diggers as class power is wielded and ‘the people’ are ‘cut down’.