The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from off the goose

The law demands that we atone

When we take things we do not own

But leaves the lord’s and ladies fine

Who take things that are yours and mine

The poor and wretched don’t escape

When they conspire the law to break

This must be so but they endure

Those who conspire to make the law

The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose from off the common

And geese will still a common lack

Until they go and steal it back

-17th century British protest song against enclosure