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The Dream Of John Ball
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Take old skool rave, add indie/punk sensibilities and anarchist politics, shake vigorously, then see what happens...
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Genre
Classical • Medieval
Charts
#106 in subgenre Peak #12
Charts
Peak #85
Author
Neil O'Brien
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@nti-copyright
Uploaded
April 22, 2009
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MP3 1.9 MB • 128 kbps • 2:04
Story behind the song
John Ball was a radical preacher who seems to have been one of the ideological leaders of the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. He was hanged, drawn and quartered for his troubles. from Thomas Walsingham's Historia Anglicana: "'When Adam dalf, and Eve span, who was thanne a gentilman? From the beginning all men were created equal by nature, and that servitude had been introduced by the unjust and evil oppression of men, against the will of God, who, if it had pleased Him to create serfs, surely in the beginning of the world would have appointed who should be a serf and who a lord' and Ball ended by recommending 'uprooting the tares that are accustomed to destroy the grain; first killing the great lords of the realm, then slaying the lawyers, justices and jurors, and finally rooting out everyone whom they knew to be harmful to the community in future."
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