Don't Forget Your Shovel chords by Christy Moore

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Verse 1:
G+G                       C majorC
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C majorC                        G+G
Oh don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
G+G                       C majorC
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C majorC                           G+G
Or you'll end up where you came from like the rest of us
D MajorD                      G+G
Diggin', diggin', diggin'... ow di liddle da


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

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


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

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


Verse 6:
  D MajorD
Now there's six thousand five hundred and fifty-nine paddies
  D MajorD
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+G                       C majorC
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C majorC                       G+G
Don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
G+G                         C majorC
Oh, don't forget your shovel if you want to go to work
C majorC                           G+G
Or you'll end up where you came from like the rest of us
D MajorD                     G+G
Diggin', diggin', diggin'... ow di liddle oh....


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