When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You – Albert Collins
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Now what you gonna do When the welfare turns its back on you? Now what you gonna do When the welfare turns its back on you? There you’ll be standin’ there stranded There ain’t a thing that you can do
Now you look all through your house Yes, you can’t find a piece of bread Now you look all through your house Yeah, you can’t find no piece of bread Sometime you begin to wonder If you be better off, better off dead
You go down to the welfare Give ’em one, two report Something they sellin’ you Will surely get your goat
If you tell ’em you sick You better have a bad cough ‘Cause if you don’t They be ready to throw you off
What you gonna do When the welfare turns its back on you? You be standin’ there stranded There ain’t a thing, there ain’t a thing you Ain’t a thing That you can do