now what you gonna do
when the welfare turn its back on you?
yeah what you gonna do
when the welfare turn its back on you
yeah
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
yeah you look all through your house
yeah
you can't find a piece of bread
sometime you begin to wonder
if you be better off dead
you go down to the welfare
ev'ry month a report
an' some of the thing they sellin' you
will surely get your goat
if you tell 'em you sick
you better have a bad cough
because if you don't
they be ready to throw you off
what you gonna do
when the welfare turns its back on you?
yeah you be standin' there stranded
yeah there ain't a thing that you can do