Dont Forget Your Shovel

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


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


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


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


[Verse 5]
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Enoch Powell will give us a job, 
                     C
diggin' our way to Annascaul
C                              
Enoch Powell will give us a job, 
                     G
diggin' our way to Annascaul
G                              
Enoch Powell will give us a job, 
                     C
diggin' our way to Annascaul
C                             
And when we're finished diggin' 
                                   G
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                                 
Don't forget your shovel if you 
            C
want to go to work
C                                 
Don't forget your shovel if you 
            G
want to go to work
G                                 
Oh, don't forget your shovel if 
                C
you want to go to work
C                                 
Or you'll end up where you came 
                    G
from like the rest of us
D                                 
Diggin', diggin', diggin'... ow di
        G
 liddle oh....


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