The Digwell Carol Words and music by Leslie Fish © 1989Chorus: C G C F C G C Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. C G C G It is the time of Digwell, now summer's gone away. G C G And people come from miles around to meet on Digwell Day. C F C F C G We all come here with mighty stones, with gravel, rocks, and sand, C G G C G C Oh, bring it here with oxcarts or with buckets in your hands. C G C F C G C (So) Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. C G C G And bring you all your blighted crops and blighted beasts beside, G C G And coffins of this season's dead that of the blight have died. C F C F C G Bring them to the mountain's top and fetch the boulders near, C G G C G C 'Tis fitting that the blighted dead should all be buried here. C G C F C G C (So) Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. C G C G So fetch the boulders, sand, and stones, and pile them deeply here. G C G We bury now the sorrows, sins, and bad luck of the year, C F C F C G And when the mountain's higher by the mound we build today, C G G C G C Then we shall feast and dance and sing this autumn night away. C G C F C G C (So) Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. C G C G For back in our forefathers' time, the devils ruled this land. G C G They made cruel wars and laws to rule the folks on every hand. C F C F C G They spoiled the land and water, and they poisoned half the sky. C G G C G C They cared for nothing but their power, though man and nature die. C G C F C G C (So) Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. C G C G In time the danger grew so fierce it threatened them as well, G C G And so they dug deep in the Earth and hid them safe in Hell. C F C F C G They hoped to wait in comfort 'til the poisons wore away, C G G C G C For then they could come out again and rule another day. C G C F C G C (So) Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. C G C G They hid themselves below the ground and left the people here, G C G Amid the blight that they had made and even they must fear, C F C F C G But still the people stayed alive, and well they promised then C G G C G C That all the devils hid in Hell would never rule again. C G C F C G C (So) Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. C G C G And so our fathers hunted 'til they found the secret gate, G C G And there they piled the boulders high above where devils wait, C F C F C G And thus we've ever after done these many years and more, C G G C G C So now our manmade mountain stands above their exit door. C G C F C G C (So) Pile high, pile high, the devil's underground. G C G C F C G C (Oh) Pile high, pile high, keep the devil down. (Repeat first verse maybe)