Key: E major•
Intro 1
E
A
E
B
A
E
A
B
Verse 1
A
E
With me spade in me hand,
A
E
shovelin' sand,
workin' like a slave.
I'm sweatin' all day,
A
E
savin' my pay,
B
A
Some- times I think I'm digging
E
A
C#m
my grave.
Verse 2
A
E
tired and what's worse,
I'm workin' like a horse,
A
E
C#m
A
B
Diggin' holes all over 'Meri- cay.
Verse 3
A
E
When... I'm down there in the ground,
It's too dark to see a- round.
A
E
My mind re- turns back
C#m
A
E
B
home so far a- way.
Verse 4
A
E
shovelin' sand,
workin' like a slave.
I'm sweatin' all day,
A
E
savin' my pay,
B
A
Some- times I think I'm digging
E
A
C#m
my grave.
Verse 5
B
A
E
Then... I see her in my mind:
The girl I left be- hind,
A
E
C#m
Sweet Mary Murphy dancin'
A
B
through the heather.
A
E
With a basket in her hand,
full of soda bread and jam,
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E
C#m
she promised me that she
A
E
would wait for- ever.
B
Verse 6
A
E
With me spade in me hand,
A
E
shovelin' sand,
workin' like a slave.
I'm sweatin' all day,
A
E
savin' my pay,
A
E
A
C#m
ging my grave.
Verse 7
A
E
day I'll go back home
and never more to roam
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E
C#m
A
B
and darlin' Mary will be- long to me.
Verse 8
A
E
I will take her for my wife
and it's there I'll spend my life,
A
E
C#m
A
E
B
But right now, over here I must be.
Verse 9
A
E
shovelin' sand,
workin' like a slave.
I'm sweatin' all day,
A
E
savin' my pay,
B
A
Some- times I think I'm digging
A
C#m
Verse 10
B
Some- times I think I'm
A
E
A
E
digging my grave.
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A B C#m
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