5.15 a.m. by Mark Knopfler from Shangri-La album
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Key: E-flat Major
Time: 4/4
D/A...........[x00232]
GMaj7.........[3x443x]
G6............[3x243x]
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5.15 a.m.
(A) G
Snow laying all around
A collier cycles home
D/A A
From his night shift underground
Past the silent pub
Em
Primary school, workingmens club
On the road from the pithead
G
The churchyard packed
D/A
With mining dead
D
Then beneath the bridge
He comes to a giant car
G
A shroud of snow upon the roof
D A
A mark ten jaguar
He thought the man was fast asleep
Em
Silent, still and deep
Both dead and cold
D/F# G
Shot through
D
With bullet holes
GMaj7
G6
The one armed bandit man
D
Came north to fill his boots
Came up from cockneyland
GMaj7
E-type jags and flashy suits
Put your money in
G6
Pull the levers
D
Watch them spin
Cash cows in all the pubs
But he preferred the new nightclubs
A
Nineteen sixty-seven
Bm
Bandit men in birdcage heaven
La dolce vita, sixty-nine
G D A
All new to people of the Tyne
D
Who knows who did what
Somebody made a call
G
They said his hands
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Were in the pot
D A
That he’d been skimming hauls
He picks up the swag
Em
They gaily gave away
Drives his giant jag
D/F# G D
Off to his big pay day
GMaj7
G6
Oh the bandit man
D
Came north to fill his boots
Came up from cockneyland
GMaj7
E-type jags and flashy suits
G6
The bandit man
D
Came up the great north road
Up to geordieland
To mine
The mother lode
| A | G/A | A | G/A |
| A | G/A | A | A7 |
D
Seams blew up or cracked
G
Black diamonds came hard won
Generations toiled and hacked
D A
For a pittance and black lung
Crushed by tub or stone
Together
Em
And alone
How the young and old
D/F# G D
Paid the price of coal
A
Eighteen sixty-seven
Bm
My angel’s gone to heaven
G
He’ll be happy there
D A
Sunlight and sweet clean air
D/A
They gather round the glass
Bm
Tough hewers and crutters
Child trappers and putters
Em A Em
The little foals and half-marrows
Who pushed
A Em
And pulled the barrows
The hod boys
G D/A
And the rolleywaymen
5.15 a.m.
