
Date of issue: 31.12.2003
Record label: EMI
Song language: English
5:15 am |
5:15 AM |
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 X Jaguar |
He thought the man was fast asleep |
Silent, still and deep |
Both dead and cold |
Shot through |
With bullet holes |
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 |
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 AM |
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