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Shovel - Doug Gallob
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| Country | IN PROGRESS (rough demo) A song about working and how it can make you weary, but joyful. | working, shovel, buiding fence, digging ditch, weary, but joyful, |
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(verse 1) I was born with a shovel I came out with a piece of rope I hit the ground in leather boots For dyin’ rich I could never hope I been building fence all day I been buckin’ bales of hay I’ll be diggin’ ditch ‘til I’m old and gray And while I’m diggin’ I will say: (chorus:) Yodelayee odeloo Yodelayee odeloo Yodelayee odeloo ooh ooh ooh ooh (verse 2) I offered up a sacrifice of blood On the barbed wire altar of the fencing gods From sinew to callous to steel to stone I pray my point will find it’s home A quarter mile on a good day Of settin’ posts in the hot sun ray Keep them cows in and make ‘em stay And while I’m diggin’ I will say: (repeat chorus) (verse 3) It may rain in Nashville But here, there’s only dust But that dusty cloud has a silver lining: We don’t get much rust Water will go where you tell it to go If you learn to talk with a shovel To make that winter hay grow high Will bend your back near double (bridge) God, I’m in love with the rocks and the dirt and the dust on this land You’ll all have to wait ‘til I die To pry this shovel from my hands (repeat chorus)
vocals, guitar, bass - Doug Gallob watch for a version by Just Desserts coming soon
I had the chorus chords and the yodeling melody and I knew it was about a guy working. About that time I went back to help my dad, who is a rancher, cowboy, veterinarian, with some ranch work. After that the rest of the song wrote itself.
-- Doug Gallob