Artist: | Christy Moore (English) |
User: | Mark Shorten |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
[Verse 1]
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