A song about an event in the Civil War

(the one that ran from 1642-51, not the American one). This was written by Leon Rosselson, and is sung here by Dick Gaughan - astonishingly making his MOG debut.

Now aged 60, Glasgow-born and Edinburgh-raised Dick Gaughan has been performing for about forty years. A committed socialist, he is a hero on the folk scene and has performed at hundreds of benefits for leftist causes of varying popularity over the years. He's also apparently a very talented web designer in his spare time.

The song tells of the attempt by Gerald Winstanley of the True Levellers (later known as the Diggers) to set up a primitive form of commune, run on ecological and democratic lines, at Weybridge in Surrey, to the anger of the New Model Army, who brought the commune and the movement to its knees within two years. Mind you, some of their ideas are still used by "alernative" socities today.