Mark Knopfler – 5 15 Am (Ukulele)

C 
5.15 a.m.

F 
A collier cycles home

                          C 
From his night shift underground 

G 
Past the silent pub

Dm 
On the road from the pithead

               F
The churchyard packed 

            C
With mining dead

C
Then beneath the bridge

F
A shroud of snow upon the roof

               C
A Mark Ten Jaguar

G
He thought the man was fast asleep

Dm
Both dead and cold

     F
Shot through

            C
With bullet holes

Fmaj7 
The one armed bandit man

C 
Came up from cockneyland 

E-type Jags and flashy suits

Fmaj7 
Put your money in

C 
Cash cows in all the pubs                                                 

G
Nineteen sixty-seven

Am 
La dolce vita, sixty-nine 

F                             C G
All new to people of the Tyne

C 
Who knows who did what

     F 
They said his hands

                        C 
That he'd been skimming hauls 

G 
He picks up the swag

Dm 
Drives his giant Jag 

    F              C
Off to his big pay day

Fmaj7 
The bandit man

C 
Came up from cockneyland

E-type Jags and flashy suits 

Fmaj7 
The bandit man

C 
Up to geordieland

C
Seams blew up or cracked

F
Generations toiled and hacked

                         C
For a pittance and black lung

G
Crushed by tub or stone

Dm
How the young and old

         F        C
Paid the price of coal

G
Eighteen sixty-seven

Am
He'll be happy there

F                            C G
Sunlight and sweet clean air

C
They gather round the glass

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.