G                                             C
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C                                                G
Oh don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
G                                             C
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C                                                     G
Or you'll end up where you came from like the rest of us
D                                            G
Diggin', diggin', diggin'... ow di liddle da


[Verse 2]
G                                                           C
And don't forget your shoes and socks and shirt and tie and all
C                                                       G
Don't forget your shoes and socks and shirt and tie and all
G                                                       C
Don't forget your shoes and socks and shirt and tie and all
C                                                    G
Mr Murphy's afraid you'll make a claim if you take a fall
D                                              G
("how's it goin'" "not too bad")  ow di liddle oh


[Verse 3]
G                                                    C
And we want to go to heaven but we're always diggin' holes
C                                                G
We want to go to heaven but we're always diggin' holes
G                                                     C
Yeah we want to go to heaven but we're always diggin' holes
C                                                         G
Well there's one thing you can say...we know where we are goin'...
D                                                       G
("any chance of a start?" "no" "okay")...  ow di liddle da


[Verse 4]
G                                                      C
And if you want to do it...don't you do it against the wall
C                                                  G
If you want to do it...don't you do it against the wall
G                                           C
Never seen a toilet on a building site at all
C                                                           G
There's a shed up in the corner where they won't see you at all
D                                         G
("mind your sandwiches")...  ow di liddle da


[Verse 5]
G                                                   C
Enoch Powell will give us a job, diggin' our way to Annascaul
C                                                   G
Enoch Powell will give us a job, diggin' our way to Annascaul
G                                                   C
Enoch Powell will give us a job, diggin' our way to Annascaul
C                                                                G
And when we're finished diggin' there they'll close the hole and all


[Verse 6]
    D
Now there's six thousand five hundred and fifty-nine paddies
    D
Over there in london all trying to dig their way back to Annascaul
N.C
And very few of them boys is going to get back at all...
N.C.
I think that's terrible.... Hmm....


[Verse 7]
G                                             C
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C                                             G
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
G                                                 C
Oh, don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C                                                     G
Or you'll end up where you came from like the rest of us
D                                         G
Diggin', diggin', diggin'... ow di liddle oh....


[Additional Verse 8 - MBE speech from "On the Road"]
G                                                C
And fair play to Daniel O'Donnell for gettin' an MBE
C                                            G
Fair play to Daniel O'Donnell for gettin' an MBE
G                                            C
Fair play to Daniel O'Donnell for gettin' an MBE
G                                                C
Ah, there's nothin' for Declan, for Jimmy or for me
D                                            G
Ow di liddle da di liddle da di liddle da da oh