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The Land! The Land For Me

from Traces of Freedom by Alan Dickson

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This is a plea for a plot of ground. Extending ownership of the land was central to Scottish Chartism. Published in the Northern Star in 1846. The lyrics are by John Peacock from Greenock.

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Let Monarchs revel in their might
And mighty Empires away.
Let millions robb’d of native right
A Lordling’s whims obey;
They who delight to worship drones
Deserve not to be free,
Content to live in landless homes,
The Land! the Land for me!

I envy not a monarch’s state,
I spurn the badge he wears;
Tho’ girt with pearls, the thing I hate,
‘Tis rear’d on human tears;
I crave but that which tyrants rift
From those who should be free,
Nature’s first boos, man’s dearest gift,
The Land! the Land for me!

The pomp of Kings I’d scorn to seek,
I wish alone to toil;
Yet while I toil the right to reap
The blessings of the soil.
I ask no gold, no dazzling pelf,
Tho’ bright and fair to see,
Let all the world deem lucre wealth,
The Land! the land for me!

My wish is not the lounging lot
Of Poor or Priestly drone,
‘Tis freedom – peace – a vote – a cot,
And plot of ground my own;
Then while I toil the live-long days,
This, this ray-song shall be,’
With pomp and pelf away, away,
The Land! The land for me!

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from Traces of Freedom, released November 6, 2015
Music by Alan Dickson

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Alan Dickson Glasgow, UK

Scottish singer songwriter Alan Dickson was born in Leith but now based in Glasgow. Alan writes about life in Scotland and beyond, mainly of a personal and political nature.

Descended from a Leith docker, he remarks: "as life mimics art I'm just like my grandfather, only he used a rivet gun and I use a guitar."

Among his influences are Robert Burns, Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan and Dick Gaughan. ... more

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