Lyrics 5:15 Am.lrc Mark Knopfler
[id: upjzhmfj]
[ar: Mark Knopfler]
[al: Shangri-La]
[ti: 5:15 Am]
[length: 05:54]
[00:09.05]5:15 a.m.
[00:13.05]Snow laying all around
[00:17.30]A collier cycles home
[00:20.56]From his night shift underground
[00:28.80]Past the silent pub
[00:31.69]Primary school, workingmens club
[00:35.76]On the road from the pithead
[00:40.48]The churchyard packed
[00:42.37]With mining dead
[00:48.02]Then beneath the bridge
[00:52.02]He comes to a giant car
[00:55.67]A shroud of snow upon the roof
[01:00.66]A mark ten jaguar
[01:07.14]He thought the man was fast asleep
[01:11.76]Silent, still and deep
[01:16.42]Both dead and cold
[01:20.36]Shot through
[01:21.89]With bullet holes
[01:27.96]The one armed bandit man
[01:31.45]Came north to fill his boots
[01:35.73]Came up from Cockneyland
[01:39.04]E-type jags and flashy suits
[01:44.10]Put your money in
[01:47.28]Pull the levers
[01:49.14]Watch them spin
[01:51.79]Cash cows in all the pubs
[01:55.23]But he preferred the new nightclubs
[01:59.98]Nineteen sixty-seven
[02:03.41]Bandit men in birdcage heaven
[02:07.56]La dolce vita, sixty-nine
[02:10.65]All new to people of the tyne
[02:23.66]Who knows who did what
[02:27.92]Somebody made a call
[02:30.95]They said his hands
[02:32.94]Were in the pot
[02:36.12]That he’d been skimming hauls
[02:43.04]He picks up the swag
[02:46.90]They gaily gave away
[02:51.00]Drives his giant jag
[02:55.51]Off to his big pay day
[03:03.32]Ho, the bandit man
[03:06.53]Came north to fill his boots
[03:10.59]Came up from Cockneyland
[03:14.18]E-type jags and flashy suits
[03:19.37]And the bandit man
[03:22.65]Came up the Great North Road
[03:26.70]Up to Geordieland
[03:30.43]To mine the mother lode
[03:34.07]
[03:49.94]Seams blew up or cracked
[03:53.86]Black diamonds came hard won
[03:57.99]Generations toiled and hacked
[04:01.98]For a pittance and black lung
[04:09.20]Crushed by tub or stone
[04:12.79]Together and alone
[04:17.16]How the young and old
[04:21.14]Paid the price of coal
[04:29.19]Eighteen sixty-seven
[04:32.60]My angel’s gone to heaven
[04:36.93]He’ll be happy there
[04:40.10]Sunlight and sweet clean air
[04:46.81]
[04:52.86]They gather round the glass
[04:59.90]Tough hewers and crutters
[05:05.87]Child trappers and putters
[05:11.39]The little foals and half-marrows
[05:17.44]Who pushed and pulled the barrows
[05:23.60]The hod boys and the rolleywaymen
[05:29.51]5:15 a.m.
[05:33.80]Year of Release: 2004