5 15am chords by Mark Knopfler

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 3rd

Capo: 3

Verse 1:
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5.15 a.m.
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Snow laying all around
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A augmentedA collier cycles home
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From his night shift underground
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Past the silent pub
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Primary school, workingmen's club
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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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He comes to a giant car
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A augmentedA shroud of snow upon the roof
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A augmentedA Mark Ten Jaguar
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He thought the man was fast asleep
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Silent, still and deep
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Both dead and cold
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Shot through
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With bullet holes

Chorus:
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The one armed bandit man
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Came north to fill his boots
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Came up from cockney land
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E-type Jags and flashy suits
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Put your money in
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Pull the levers
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Watch them spin
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Cash cows in all the pubs
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But he preferred the new nightclubs

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Nineteen sixty-seven
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Bandit men in birdcage heaven
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La dolce vita, sixty-nine
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All new to people of the Tyne

Verse 2:
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Who knows who did what
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Somebody made a call
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They said his hands
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Were in the pot
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That he'd been skimming hauls
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He picks up the swag
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They gaily gave away
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Drives his giant Jag
  FF       C majorC
Off to his big pay day

Chorus:
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The bandit man
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Came north to fill his boots
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Came up from cockneyland
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E-type Jags and flashy suits
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The bandit man
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Came up the great north road
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Up to geordieland
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To mine
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The mother lode

Verse 3:
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Seams blew up or cracked
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Black diamonds came hard won
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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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Together
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And alone
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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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My angel's gone to heaven
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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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Tough hewers and crutters
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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.