[00:09.51]5.15 a.m.
[00:13.53]Snow laying all around
[00:17.62]A collier cycles home
[00:20.99]From his night shift underground
[00:29.25]Past the silent pub
[00:32.07]Primary school, working mens club
[00:35.96]On the road from the pit head
[00:39.53]The churchyard packed with mining dead
[00:48.49]Then beneath the bridge
[00:52.37]He comes to a giant car
[00:55.69]A shroud of snow upon the roof
[00:59.63]A mark ten jaguar
[01:07.44]He thought the man was fast asleep
[01:11.97]Silent, still and deep
[01:15.85]Both dead and cold
[01:20.55]But shot through with bullet holes
[01:27.93]The one armed bandit man
[01:31.71]Came north to fill his boots
[01:34.85]Came up from cockneyland
[01:39.29]E-type jags and flashy suits
[01:43.66]Put your money in
[01:47.25]Pull the levers, watch them spin
[01:51.03]Cash cows in all the pubs
[01:55.58]But he preferred the new nightclubs
[02:00.37]Nineteen sixty-seven
[02:03.68]Bandit men in birdcage heaven
[02:07.48]La dolce vita, sixty-nine
[02:11.50]All new to people of the tyne
[02:23.68]Who knows who did what
[02:27.72]Somebody made a call
[02:30.74]They said his hands were in the pot
[02:34.26]That he'd been skimming hauls
[02:43.03]He picks up the swag
[02:46.65]They gaily gave away
[02:50.59]Drives his giant jag
[02:54.51]Off to his big pay day
[03:03.09]The bandit man
[03:06.06]Came north to fill his boots
[03:09.95]Came up from cockneyland
[03:13.33]E-type jags and flashy suits
[03:17.31]The bandit man
[03:21.80]Came up the great north road
[03:25.82]Up to Geordieland
[03:30.16]To mine the mother lode
[03:49.46]Seams blew up or cracked
[03:52.78]Black diamonds came hard won
[03:57.47]Generations toiled and hacked
[04:00.94]For a pittance and black lung
[04:07.49]Crushed by tub or stone
[04:12.44]Together and alone
[04:16.58]How the young and old
[04:20.60]Paid the price of coal
[04:28.49]Eighteen sixty-seven
[04:31.88]My angel's gone to heaven
[04:36.22]He'll be happy there
[04:39.33]Sunlight and sweet clean air
[04:52.22]They gather 'round the glass
[04:59.35]Tough hewers and crutters
[05:04.59]Child trappers and putters
[05:10.38]The little foals and half-marrows
[05:16.74]Who pushed and pulled the barrows
[05:22.57]The hod boys
[05:23.73]And the rolleywaymen
[05:28.68]5.15 a.m