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Welfare Line

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Welfare Line

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Welfare Line

I get up early in the morning,

I'll be standin' at the welfare line.

I get up early in the morning,

Lord, I'll be standin' at that welfare line.

I keep talkin' to my case worker,

but the governor don't seem to pay me no mind,

Lord, tell me what can I do ?

I see people ridin' in Cadilacs,

my ... seems like they're doin' alright

I see people ridin' in big Cadilacs,

my ... seems like they're doin' alright.

But I wanna know,

Oh Lord, I need some food to make it through the night.

Everybody says it's gonna be alright after a while,

I can't see,

I'm moaning the blues,

Lord, they say it's gonna be alright after a while,

I can't feet my own like a baby child.

I see my caseworker,

along the fourth time,

but for the next three years and a half and forty-four

she don't pay no mind.

It seems like politics,

politics, politics in a world of sin.

(that's why) early in the morning,

I'll be standin' at that welfare line.

Early in the morning,

it don't have to be Monday,

any day I do,

I keep talkin' to my case worker,

but the governor don't seem to pay me no mind.

Oh, I don't know what I'm gonna do.

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