Daddy Was

Daddy was a miner

Oooh Daddy was

Daddy was miner

Oooh daddy was

Daddy was a miner when the pit shut down

A one trick man in a one-horse town

His only crime was to live in that time

Now there's no time for losers

No time for losers

There's no time for losers

And beggars can't be choosers

Daddy was a miner but he ain't no more

Walls caved in and he hit the floor

I feel the darkness piling up inside

But there's no time for losers

No time for losers

There's no time for losers

And beggars can't be choosers

The boom has passed

And the good times gone

The mining life was all he'd known

Exhausted seams run above their heads

A hundred hearts and a thousand dreads

Daddy was a spinner when the mill shut down

The thread ran out on cotton town

It was the only real life he'd known

Now there's no time for losers

No time for losers

There's no time for losers

And beggars can't be choosers

A fair day's work for a fair day's pay

You'd better hear what the unions say

Cheap imports undercut your costs

The pendulum swung and the margins lost

Daddy was a miner ooh daddy was

Daddy was a spinner ooh daddy was

Daddy was a tanner ooh daddy was

A data programmer, ooh daddy was