[ Jim Howick ]
We were weavers highly skilled
'til things were mechanized-ah
Craft and artisanship KILLED!
A threat to all our lives-ah

[ Matthew Baynton ]
Machines meant the workforce shrunk
You'd think you'd see us settle?!
When bosses said "Let's junk each punk and replace you...
With heavy metal!"

[ All, Matthew Baynton, Jim Howick ]
LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITES!
The working man was sacrificed
LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITES!
Turned us into... anarchists-ah!

[ Jim Howick ]
Industrial revolution, our old life overthrown-ah
So we came up with a solution...
A revolution of our own-ah!

[ Matthew Baynton ]
Met in the hills and planned to smash
Their weaving machines of gloom!
Hear that sweet music as wе bash
A wop bop a doo ahh, a wop bang BOOM!!
[ All, Jim Howick, Matthew Baynton ]
LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITES!
Industrial weaving, it's a stitch up-ah!
LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITES!
Break the dеvice and smash my switch up!

[ Jim Howick, Matthew Baynton]
We named our movement after Ned Ludd
A folk hero who myth proclaimed
Once reacted in a fit of rage
By smashing up some knitting frames!
So we formed the new luddite army...

[ All, Simon Farnaby ]
STARTED TO RIOT!
It all went barmy..

[ Instrumental ]

[ Matthew Baynton ]
Laws were passed to shake our wills, sent soldiers armed with guns
And though we tried to break things still, we fought the law!
But the law won...

[ Jim Howick ]
Trial and punishments were seen, it’s clear we'd lost the fight..
But thanks to us rage against the machine, now carries the
Name...
LLLLLLLUUUDITEEEEESSS-AHHHH!!!
[ All, Jim Howick, Matthew Baynton ]
LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITES!
This bands struggle carries on-ah!
LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITE, LUDDITES!
Won't rest 'til machines are all gone!

[ Matthew Baynton, Laurence Rickard ]
SOLO!!
O-on what, exactly?