Chords for The Sands Family - The Spade Song ( From the Ulster TV Programme 'A Toast to St Patrick' )

_ _ _ _ [Eb] _ Is that yourself?
_ [E] Indeed it is.
[Abm] Well you're a [E] stranger here. _
[A] I don't know [E] when I've seen you last.
[Ab] It must be more [Abm] than a year.
_ [Am] _ How are you doing?
[E] I'm not so [B] bad, and what about _ [E]
yourself?
_ [A] No use [Abm] _ [E] complaining I _ [A] suppose. _ _ _ _
_ [E] As long as [Abm] we've got [E] the health.
_ [A] No use [Abm] _ [E] complaining [A] I _ _ suppose. _ _ _
[E] As [Abm] long as we've got the health. _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Abm] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Where are you now?
I'm still at home, it's a [Abm] brother that went [E] _ away.
[A] Me father he said that if one of us left [Gb] the other would have [Abm] to stay. _
[A] Sure jobs are [E] getting very scarce, [B] the _ _ [E] unemployment's a curse. _
[Ab] But still I [Abm] suppose the [A] fella _ _ says,
_ _ _ [Abm] it's bad and it couldn't [E] be worse.
_ But still [Abm] I suppose the [E] fella _ _ _ _ _ says,
it's [Abm] bad and it couldn't be worse.
[Ab] _ _ [Abm] _
Suppose that's right too.
[E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Terrible weather _ altogether, it's [Abm] never going to [E] clear.
Do you know what I'm going to tell you though?
[Gb] It's not bad for the [Abm] time of the year.
[A] Sure a supper ain't [E] never done very much [Abm] harm,
the grass could do with [E] a drop.
_ [A] I'd [B] pass no [E] remarks on this [A] gift or two. _ _ _
_ _ [E] As [Abm] long as there's not [E] a slap.
_ [Gb] I'd pass no remarks on this [A] gift or _ two. _ _ _
[E] As long as there's not a slap.
[Abm] I wouldn't mind a few [A] spits.
_ [Abm] _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ A slap's the last thing that we need for our wee medicine hey. _
[A] Do you mind the thread [E] we had last year [Gb] coming up on [Abm] Butterford Bray?
[A] The mountains come [E] very [Abm] close, I don't like the look of [E] the sky. _
[A] The [Abm] forecast [E] talked about [A] the change.
_ But _ [Abm] you mightn't believe the noise.
_ The forecast talked about [E] the _ _ _ _ change.
But you [Abm] mightn't believe the noise.
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ [E] _ It's a good fire. _
_ Isn't it?
_ _ Good draft. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I think I'll ask him.
_ What a draft?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I suppose I'd better be heading on ahead of you back a lot.
[A] I was clearing up at the back of the house, [Gb] the garden is [B] very rough. _
[A] I broke the [E] spade and it's awful [Abm] and you've only got [E] the grin. _
[A] And unless [Abm] you can get the loan of [A] a _ spade, _ _ _ [Abm] the garden will [E] have to win.
_ _ Unless [Abm] you can get the loan [A] of a _ spade, _ _ _ the [Abm] garden will have to win.
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Abm] _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Aye a spade's an awful messy thing, _ there's the sun again. _
[A] But it's only a [E] pad that they'll never keep up [Gb] with all the [B] sputtering.
_ Would _ _ _ _ [A] _ you be [E] so scared today? _ _ _
_ _ _ [B] To tell you the truth [E] I'm not, _ [A] for I landed [Abm] to you a year [A] _ ago. _ _ _
And [Abm] since then they never [E] saw it, _ [A] I landed [B] to you a [A] year _ ago.
_ _ And [E] since then they never [B] saw it.
[A] _ _
_ Oh well, [Abm] so harmonious.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _