Christy Moore Don't Forget Your Shovel lyrics

Don't forget your shovel
If you want to go to work
Oh, don't forget your shovel
If you want to go to work

Don't forget your shovel
If you want to go to work
Or you'll end up where you came from
Like the rest of us
Diggin', diggin', diggin'

And don't forget your shoes
And socks and shirt and tie and all
Don't forget your shoes
And socks and shirt and tie and all

Mr Murphy's afraid
You'll make a claim if you take a fall
("How's it goin'?", "Not too bad")

And we want to go to heaven
But we're always diggin' holes
We want to go to heaven
But we're always diggin' holes

Yeah, we want to go to heaven
But we're always diggin' holes
Well, there's one thing you can say
We know where we are goin'
("Any chance of a start?", "No", "Okay")

And if you want to do it
Don't you do it against the wall
If you want to do it
Don't you do it against the wall

Never seen a toilet on a building site at all

There's a shed up in the corner
Where they won't see you at all
("Mind your sandwiches")

Enoch Powell will give us a job
Diggin' our way to Annascaul
Enoch Powell will give us a job
Diggin' our way to Annascaul

Enoch Powell will give us a job
Diggin' our way to Annascaul
And when we're finished diggin'
There they'll close the hole and all

Now there's six thousand
Five hundred and fifty nine paddies
Over there in London
All trying to dig their way back to Annascaul

And very few of them boys
Is going to get back at all
I think that's terrible

Don't forget your shovel
If you want to go to work
Oh, don't forget your shovel
If you want to go to work

Don't forget your shovel
If you want to go to work
Or you'll end up where you came from
Like the rest of us
Diggin', diggin', diggin'
Ow di liddle dooh