Take Up Your Spade by Sara Watkins, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Take Up Your Spade

Biography:

Sara Watkins, (born June 8, 1981) is a fiddler, vocalist, and songwriter, and is one third of the contemporary bluegrass/folk band Nickel Creek. Watkins first gained recognition as a founding member of the Grammy Award–winning, platinum-selling trio Nickel Creek. When not on the road or in the studio, Watkins has guest-starred as fiddler and/or harmony vocalist on albums by Béla Fleck, the Chieftains, Ray LaMontagne, Ben Lee, Dan Wilson, Richard Thompson, and Alex Woodward, among others.

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[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