Don't Forget Your Shovel chords by Christy Moore

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

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