When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You
by Weaver / Thompson 
recording of 1978 
from 
Ice Pickin (Alligator ALCD-4713) 
Now what you gonna do, when the welfare turn it's back on you? 
Now what you gonna do-hoo-hoo-hoo, when the welfare turn it's back on you 
Now, you be standin' there stranded, there's 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 hou-hou-house, yeah, you can't find a 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 it's back on you? 
You be standin' there stranded, 
There ain't a thing, there ain't a thing you 
There ain't a thing-hing-hing-hing-hing, 
that you can do 

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July 15 2000