5.15 A.m. Lyrics - Shangri-la - Mark Knopfler

5.15 A.M. 

Snow laying all around 

A collier cycles home 

From his night shift underground 

Past the silent pub 

Primary school, workingmens club 

On the road from the pithead 

The churchyard packed 

With mining dead 

Then beneath the bridge 

He comes to a giant car 

A shroud of snow upon the roof 

A mark ten jaguar 

He thought the man was fast asleep 

Silent, still and deep 

Both dead and cold 

Shot through 

With bullet holes 

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The one armed bandit man 

Came north to fill his boots 

Came up from cockneyland 

E-type jags and flashy suits 

Put your money in 

Pull the levers 

Watch them spin 

Cash cows in all the pubs 

But he preferred the new nightclubs 

Nineteen sixty-seven 

Bandit men in birdcage heaven 

La dolce vita, sixty-nine 

All new to people of the tyne 

Who knows who did what 

Somebody made a call 

They said his hands 

Were in the pot 

That he'd been skimming hauls 

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He picks up the swag 

They gaily gave away 

Drives his giant jag 

Off to his big pay day 

The bandit man 

Came north to fill his boots 

Came up from cockneyland 

E-type jags and flashy suits 

The bandit man 

Came up the great north road 

Up to geordieland 

To mine 

The mother lode 

Seams blew up or cracked 

Black diamonds came hard won 

Generations toiled and hacked 

For a pittance and black lung 

Crushed by tub or stone 

Together 

And alone 

How the young and old 

Paid the price of coal 

Eighteen sixty-seven 

My angel's gone to heaven 

He'll be happy there 

Sunlight and sweet clean air 

They gather round the glass 

Tough hewers and crutters 

Child trappers and putters 

The little foals and half-marrows 

Who pushed 

And pulled the barrows 

The hod boys 

And the rolleywaymen 

5.15 A.M.