Mark Knopfler – 5 15 Am (Guitar)

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5.15 a.m.

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A collier cycles home

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From his night shift underground 

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Past the silent pub

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On the road from the pithead

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The churchyard packed 

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With mining dead

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Then beneath the bridge

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A shroud of snow upon the roof

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A Mark Ten Jaguar

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He thought the man was fast asleep

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Both dead and cold

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Shot through

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With bullet holes

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The one armed bandit man

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Came up from cockneyland 

E-type Jags and flashy suits

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Put your money in

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Cash cows in all the pubs                                                 

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Nineteen sixty-seven

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La dolce vita, sixty-nine 

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All new to people of the Tyne

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Who knows who did what

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They said his hands

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That he'd been skimming hauls 

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He picks up the swag

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Drives his giant Jag 

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Off to his big pay day

Gmaj7 
The bandit man

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Came up from cockneyland

E-type Jags and flashy suits 

Gmaj7 
The bandit man

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Up to geordieland

To mine        A
The mother lode 

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Seams blew up or cracked

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Generations toiled and hacked

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For a pittance and black lung

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Crushed by tub or stone

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How the young and old

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Paid the price of coal

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Eighteen sixty-seven

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He'll be happy there

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Sunlight and sweet clean air

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They gather round the glass

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Child trappers and putters 

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The little foals and half-marrows 

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Who pushed 

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And pulled the barrows 

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The hod boys 

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And the rolleywaymen 

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5.15 a.m.