Billy Bragg - The World Turned Upside Down 

Respect. I like the sound of that. Would you know a version with UK lyrics. A singer or group name maybe. Thanks dude✌ Edit: Two yrs old comment, maybe someone else can point me.Thanks

And what does the title mean?

@Andro & @jd_jd_jd Well "The Internationale" has similar sentiments * and Billy Bragg's version says "Those who have taken, now they must give/". * e.g.: "Ere the thieves will out with their booty/And to all give a happier lot/Each at the forge must do his duty/And we'll strike the iron while it's hot!"

Winstanley would never have used the word 'ecological' Josh, he believed profoundly in God and God's word and the relationship was between Man and God's Creation - this is what the Commonwealth was.

@@philbutcher6959 it was the 1600's, of course he wouldn't. The point is he would have seen the land as a common gift to all, not a commodity to be used, soiled, and transformed into cash.

@@allisonmackay3818 Agreed, which is the message of the Bible from beginning to end and why Winstanley arrived at that view (a lot of his works are theological treatise on the Bible). The problem (or 'point') we face is that the language now used is rooted in a materialist science and commerce ('ecology' was coined by lawyers, eugenicists and atheists to those ends). The natural world is not a machine and as long as we keep thinking it is, the deeper our problems will be. The body is starting to be seen as digital, for instance. 'Sustainability' is a commodifiers dream come true. It is confusing for some, but unless you tackle the language you use, you do not lift out of this logic.

@@philbutcher6959 see ya lost me here but I think both viewpoints agree that treating the earth as a sewer is just plain wrong.

@@philbutcher6959 give me ecological sustainability over dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

A majority of education is dominated by progressive or leftist ideology. This isn’t something new.

struth

Kylie Minogue's version of locomotion must come in a close second.

@@wanderinggoliard hahaha

Wandering Goliard , oh here’s my thumbs up, take it.

Dick Gaughan???? Came first

@@luiginofrancioni7168 his version was good, but the ;lyrics are by Leon Rosselson, the upload of Gaughan's performance on the BBC from '82 has the credit on screen.

if even the ukulele open mic is taken over by the rich, what hope is left?

Nah, go for it! You may be surprised... hope you did it?

@@alastairpaterson7946 I DID IT!!! It was controversial but people really enjoyed it. Most had never heard the song before.

🤣😘

I just said this very thing to a friend on Facebook.

even more ironically billy now loves in a mansion in non multicultural dorset...

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That's when I learned this song, I was housemates with Max at the time. I just looked it up because a friend posted an article about the idea of "the commons."

$ where mouth is?

@@LasArmas_ mouth where 3==) is?

Amen

Proletarians of the world unite ✊️

Cheers from Texas ! It is only a matter of time even here

Original:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SWRpl2S9iwk.html

@@jd_jd_jd Thats the one we’re on…

​@@warweasel2832oh yeah😂😂

Ahem, original here:ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-594JpY2ahFg.html

Bragg did not write a cover version. His lyrics were his own, based on the original ballad melody from 1646.

You mean the 1680s, of course

I’m 21 now, I first head this song last year, it’s bloody great.

I was twelve, my history teacher used it as a teaching tool

i was 21 years when i heard this song, im 22 now but i wont be for long

1st song at ritz manchester October 20 2018. Legend . Life changing . Thanks Billy

And it was brilliant last year- perfect round off for the summer

Hill, sadly, was a victim of his Marxism. The book reads almost as a parody these days, unfortunately.

Christopher Hill a victim of his Marxism? Brother, have you actually READ his work? Hill was one of the most independent and farseeing of English thinkers, in a league with the great Edward Thompson. This knee jerk 21st C anti-Marxism is ill considered and stupid.

The diggers were NOT early socialists but early Christian Anarchists. Christian Anarchism puts humanity before any ideology the command to love each other takes priority over defending rapists like Assange that's the difference - You don't defend rape and child abuse for some imagined greater good because there is no greater good that involves rape and child abuse.

@@shonagraham2752 rape is being used as a political tool by the elite. Think dude

@@shonagraham2752 Totally agree on the Xtian Anarchy.

As an American, it really bothers me that Hamilton coopted the title, as our revolution was nothing like the true revolutionary vision of the 1650s, including the Diggers. "Men of property" still made sure to maintain control of the new American republic. The title comes form a quote by Henry Denne, a radical Baptist in the 1640s "I may... to many seem guilty of that crime which was laid against the Apostle, to turn the world upside down, and to set that in the bottom which others make the top of the building and to set that upon the roof which others lay for a foundation." These folks were Christian Social Anarchists not American republicans (small r, not referring to party).

@@darlincommitme Well said friend

The title wasnt coopted though. The British played “The Workd Thrned Upside Down” (an english folk song) after the surrender dur at yorktonw

@@jamesbellamy9328 I didn't realize that part of the history, but in that case the Brits were still associating a relatively mild revolution of the propertied class with an earlier, and much more radical movement.

@@darlincommitme right. Alexander Hamilton was NO egalitarian, regardless of popularity of play. He was quite class-prejudiced.

if someone offered you a job in the City for a grand a day, admit it , you'd take it in a heartbeat!

​@@jonathanjonathan7386just because we still are FORCED to live by the rules of capitalismz doesnt mean we are giving our consent.

You can't. You upset the apple cart.

Occupy was a liberal project not socialist, led by the same people who helped cause the current sorry state of inequality in the name of "Personal freedoms" over collective freedom, the two are not comparable

calm down shawn. form your sentences. please. what are you trying to say?

+x123Scandalx I like Chumbawambas' version

Socialism will never die as long as Capitalism exists.

@@mirror452 Perfect response!

@@mirror452 The problem is that we need to find a middle way but supposedly intelligent humans have no chance of pursuing that dream.

@@andycap1188 Ain't no middle way when one of the options is to feed you into a meat grinder.

youtube is a propaganda pipeline. it should not be marketed to kids. the kid's content is cynical and greedy. most of youtube besides videos like this is people trying to manipulate "fair use" to steal content and show you snippets of it, or people stealing disney and marvel IP to manipulate kids who don't know better. kids would be better off with records or with cable - you don't click the remote two times and end up hearing a neonazi on cable. sesame street respects its audience more than any youtube kid's content.