Take Up Your Spade Chords
by Sara Watkins
Take Up Your Spade by Sara Watkins is a beginner-friendly guitar song played in the key of D. It uses the chords D, A and G. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro: D A G D (x2)
Verse
D G
Sun is up, a new day is before you
D G
Sun is up, wake your sleepy soul
D G
Sun is up, hold on to what is yours
D A G
Take up your spade and break ground
Instrumental
D A G D (x2)
Verse
D
Shake off your shoes
G D
Leave yesterday behind you
D
Shake off your shoes
G
But forget not where you've been
D
Shake off your shoes
G D
Forgive and be forgiven
D A G
Take up your spade and break ground
Instrumental
D A G D (x4)
Verse
D G
Give thanks, for all that you've been given
D G
Give thanks, for who you can become
D G
Give thanks, for each moment and every crumb
D A N.C.
Take up your spade and break ground
D A G D (until end)
Break ground, break ground, break ground