Henry's Songbook

Chorus:
Everyone their skill must try
You must turn out and not deny
No bloody soldier must you dread
You must turn out and fight for bread
For the time has come you plainly see
The Government opposed must be

You working men of Derbyshire who spend your life in grief and fear
Come take your pike staff in your hand and join our march to Nottingham

The stockingers trade has all gone down, there is no work in village or town
For the Derby Rib from fashion did fall and left us with no work at all
Lord Liverpool said when the war was won that there'd be work for every man
Our children they still cry for bread - us working folk would be better dead

We call at every house and farm and demand of them to give us arms
We'll take each able bodied man to join our march to Nottingham
And when we come to Nottingham there'll be beef and bread for everyone
We'll join the clouds coming from the north to show this government our worth
From Wakefield, Leeds and Manchester they all will come to join us there
And then we'll march to London town to bring this tyrant Government down

(as sung by Roy Bailey and Band of Hope)