the welfare turns it's back on you

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