Chords:
G7M 3x0002
Intro: D
5.15 a.m.
G
snow laying all around
a collier cycles home
D 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
with mining dead
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
G
shot through
D G7M
with bullet holes
the one armed bandit man
D
came north to fill his boots
came up from cockneyland
G7M
e-type jags and flashy suits
put your money in
pull the levers
D
watch them spin
cash cows in all the pubs
A
but he preferred the new nightclubs
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
G D G7M
off to his big pay day
the bandit man
D
came north to fill his boots
came up from cockneyland
G7M
e-type jags and flashy suits
the bandit man
D
came up the great north road
up to geordieland
to mine
A
the mother lode
A
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
G D A
paid the price of coal
eighteen sixty-seven
Bm
my angel’s gone to heaven
G
he’ll be happy there
D A
sunlight and sweet clean air
D
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
and the rolleywaymen
5.15 a.m.
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