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Introducción: E
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5.15 a.m.
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snow laying all around
a collier cycles home
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from his night shift underground
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past the silent pub
primary school, workingmens club
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on the road from the pithead
fis
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then beneath the bridge
he comes to a giant car
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a mark ten jaguar
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he thought the man was fast asleep
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silent, still and deep
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both dead and cold
fis
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came north to fill his boots
came up from cockneyland
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cash cows in all the pubs
H7
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nineteen sixty-seven
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bandit men in birdcage heaven
la dolce vita, sixty-nine
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all new to people of the tyne
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who knows who did what
somebody made a call
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they said his hands
fis
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that he?d been skimming hauls
fis
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drives his giant jag
fis H7
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came north to fill his boots
came up from cockneyland
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came up the great north road
up to geordieland
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seams blew up or cracked
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black diamonds came hard won
generations toiled and hacked
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for a pittance and black lung
fis
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how the young and old
fis H7
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eighteen sixty-seven
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my angel?s gone to heaven
he?ll be happy there
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sunlight and sweet clean air
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they gather round the glass
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tough hewers and crutters
child trappers and putters
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the little foals and half-marrows
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who pushed
cis
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the hod boys
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and the rolleywaymen
5.15 a.m.