The Luddites! Horrible Histories (Ft. Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, Mathew Baynton & Simon Farnaby)

We were weavers highly skilled
Till things were mechanised
Craft and artisanship killed
A threat to all our lives

Machines meant the workforce shrunk
You think you’d see us settle
When bosses said ‘Let's junk each punk
And replace you with heavy metal'

Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddites
The working man was sacrificed
Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddites
Turned us in to anarchists

Industrial revolution
Our old life overthrown
So we came up with a solution
A revolution of our own

Met in the hills and planned to smash
Their weaving machines of gloom
Hear that sweet music as we bash
A wop bam a loom ahh A wop bam boom

Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddites
Industrial weaving, it’s a stitch up
Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddite, Luddites
Break the device and smash my switch up