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Snow laying all around
GA collier cycles home
DFrom his night shift underground
Past the silent pub
Primary school, workingmens club
On the road from the pithead
GThe churchyard packed
DWith mining dead
D
Then beneath the bridge
He comes to a giant car
GA shroud of snow upon the roof
A Mark Ten Jaguar
AHe thought the man was fast asleep
Silent, still and deep
EmBoth dead and cold
GShot 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
DCash cows in all the pubs
But he preferred the new nightclubs
A
Nineteen sixty-seven
Bandit men in birdcage heaven
BmLa dolce vita, sixty-nine
G D AAll new to people of the Tyne
D
Who knows who did what
Somebody made a call
GThey said his hands
Were in the pot
DThat he'd been skimming hauls
He picks up the swag
They gaily gave away
Drives his giant Jag
G DOff to his big pay day
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The bandit man
Came north to fill his boots
DCame up from cockneyland
E-type Jags and flashy suits
Gmaj7The bandit man
Came up the great north road
DUp to geordieland
To mine A
The mother lode
D
Seams blew up or cracked
Black diamonds came hard won
GGenerations toiled and hacked
For a pittance and black lung
ACrushed by tub or stone
Together
And alone
How the young and old
G DPaid the price of coal
A
Eighteen sixty-seven
My angel's gone to heaven
BmHe'll be happy there
G D ASunlight and sweet clean air
D
They gather round the glass
Tough hewers and crutters
BmChild trappers and putters
The little foals and half-marrows
EmWho pushed
AAnd pulled the barrows
The hod boys
GAnd the rolleywaymen
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