5 15am chords by Mark Knopfler

• Capo on 3rd

Capo: 3

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:
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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.