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5.15 a.m. by Mark Knopfler from Shangri-La album For any questions mail me to fffoma@gmail.com Key: E-flat Major Time: 4/4 D/A...........[x00232] GMaj7.........[3x443x] G6............[3x243x] | D/A | x4 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 [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/m/mark-knopfler/370491.html ] 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. |