5 15 Am chords by Mark Knopfler

5.15 a.m. by Mark Knopfler from Shangri-La album


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
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.