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5 15 LA m
Snow laying all around
SOL
A collier cycles home
RE
From his night shift underground
LA
Past the silent pub
Primary school, workingmens club
MIm
On the road from the pithead
SOL
The churchyard packed
RE
With mining dead
RE
Then beneath the bridge
He comes to a giant car
SOL
A shroud of snow upon the roof
RE
A Mark Ten Jaguar
LA
He thought the man was fast asleep
Silent, still and deep
MIm
Both dead and cold
SOL
Shot through
RE
With bullet holes
SOLmaj7
The one armed bandit man
Came north to fill his boots
RE
Came up from cockneyland
E-type Jags and flashy suits
SOLmaj7
Put your money in
Pull the levers
Watch them spin
RE
Cash cows in all the pubs
But he preferred the new nightclubs
LA
Nineteen sixty-seven
Bandit men in birdcage heaven
SIm
La dolce vita, sixty-nine
SOL RE LA
All new to people of the Tyne
RE
Who knows who did what
Somebody made a call
SOL
They said his hands
Were in the pot
RE
That he'd been skimming hauls
LA
He picks up the swag
They gaily gave away
MIm
Drives his giant Jag
SOL RE
Off to his big pay day
SOLmaj7
The bandit man
Came north to fill his boots
RE
Came up from cockneyland
E-type Jags and flashy suits
SOLmaj7
The bandit man
Came up the great north road
RE
Up to geordieland
To mine A
The mother lode
RE
Seams blew up or cracked
Black diamonds came hard won
SOL
Generations toiled and hacked
RE
For a pittance and black lung
LA
Crushed by tub or stone
Together
And alone
MIm
How the young and old
SOL RE
Paid the price of coal
LA
Eighteen sixty-seven
My angel's gone to heaven
SIm
He'll be happy there
SOL RE LA
Sunlight and sweet clean air
RE
They gather round the glass
Tough hewers and crutters
SIm
Child trappers and putters
SOL LA
The little foals and half-marrows
MIm
Who pushed
LA
And pulled the barrows
MIm
The hod boys
SOL
And the rolleywaymen
RE
5 15 LA m
Gmaj7=320002
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