Raider Man" Lyrics - Frank Black

All my life I've been digging Polish black coal 

It wasn't much but you know I could play that role 

They laid me off and so I kept my pail 

And now I wade in bushes down by the rail 

Raider man, got no choice about it 

Raider man, jumpin' up there on it 

Raider man, gonna' take a little bit now 

They hired me back and traded my pail for a stick 

Now I chase the ones with a pail and a brick 

Raider man, got no choice about it 

Raider man, jumpin' up there on it 

Raider man, gonna' take a little bit now 

Raider man, got no choice about it 

Raider man, jumpin' up there on it 

Raider man, gonna' take a little bit now 

I chased my cousin, it wasn't no big deal 

I lost my legs when I slipped beneath the coal train wheel 

My cousin tries to put something in my bowl 

And now I wish, I never left that darkened hole 

Raider man, got no choice about it 

Raider man, jumpin' up there on it 

Raider man, gonna' take a little bit now