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[Verse]
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You may have seen Wat Tyler
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When they threw him down below
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And the peasant men, all twenty thousand of them
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Were undone then in one blow
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And you may have seen them holler
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And you may have seen them run
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On that fateful day, as the old books say
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That the good and the mighty won
[Verse]
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Up rode young King Richard
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With a look so sly and cold
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–God is mustering his clouds on our behalf
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To strike at your children yet unborn
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And you will remain in bondage
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Even harsher than before
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You wretches of men throughout the land
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Who will seek equality with your lords
[Verse]
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Hear then brave Wat Tyler
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And the preacher mad John Ball
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–It is from our labour
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That they have the wherewithal
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To support their pomp and splendor
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While we get nothing from them at all
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But our meal of rye and water
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And the refuse of the straw
[Interlude]
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[Verse]
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If someone tries to tame you
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And to make of you their slave
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And if you have no means to get the better of them
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Then at least try to misbehave
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And you may have seen them holler
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And you may have seen them run
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On that fateful day, as the old books say
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That the good and the mighty won
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And you may have seen them holler
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And you may have seen them run
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On that fateful day, as the old books say
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That the good and the mighty won
