Mark Knopfler – 5 15 Am (Guitar)

Capo 3
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Versions (3)

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This song is played on two guitars a lovely mix of a Strat and Les Paul. but that's only my ears! [Verse 1]
C 
5.15 a.m.

C
Snow laying all around

F 
A collier cycles home

                          C 
From his night shift underground 

G 
Past the silent pub

G
Primary school, workingmen's club 

Dm 
On the road from the pithead

               F
The churchyard packed 

            C
With mining dead

C
Then beneath the bridge

C
He comes to a giant car

F
A shroud of snow upon the roof

               C
A Mark Ten Jaguar

G
He thought the man was fast asleep

G
Silent, still and deep

Dm
Both dead and cold

     F
Shot through

            C
With bullet holes
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 
The one armed bandit man

Fmaj7
Came north to fill his boots

C 
Came up from cockney land 

C
E-type Jags and flashy suits

Fmaj7 
Put your money in

Fmaj7
Pull the levers

Fmaj7
Watch them spin 

C 
Cash cows in all the pubs 

C                                                 
But he preferred the new nightclubs

G
Nineteen sixty-seven

G
Bandit men in birdcage heaven 

Am 
La dolce vita, sixty-nine 

F                        C G
All new to people of the Tyne
[Verse 2]
C 
Who knows who did what

C
Somebody made a call 

     F 
They said his hands

 F
Were in the pot 

                        C 
That he'd been skimming hauls 

G 
He picks up the swag

G 
They gaily gave away 

Dm 
Drives his giant Jag 

    F              C
Off to his big pay day
[Chorus]
Fmaj7 
The bandit man

Fmaj7
Came north to fill his boots 

C 
Came up from cockneyland

C
E-type Jags and flashy suits 

Fmaj7 
The bandit man

Fmaj7
Came up the great north road 

C 
Up to geordieland

C 
To mine

        G
The mother lode 
[Verse 3]
C
Seams blew up or cracked

C
Black diamonds came hard won

F
Generations toiled and hacked

                         C
For a pittance and black lung

G
Crushed by tub or stone

G
Together

G
And alone

Dm
How the young and old

         F        C
Paid the price of coal

G
Eighteen sixty-seven

G
My angel's gone to heaven

Am
He'll be happy there

F                         C G
Sunlight and sweet clean air

C
They gather round the glass

C
Tough hewers and crutters

Am 
Child trappers and putters 

                 F        G 
The little foals and half-marrows 

Dm 
Who pushed 

               G 
And pulled the barrows 

Dm 
The hod boys 

        F 
And the rolleywaymen 

C
5.15 a.m.