welfare

It sounds like a whisper

While they're standing in the welfare lines

Crying at the doorsteps of those armies of salvation

(Tell 'em when you went to the park and everybody came back and...)

And welfare don't mean well for you, you, you, you

(What about when you tried to do a side for that but you...)

A child is born to a welfare case

Where the rats run around like they own the place

Well, hey, hey, the workin' man, the workin' man like me

I ain't never been on welfare, that's one place I won't be

'Cause I'll be workin' 'long as my two hands are fit to use

I got the hungries for your love

And I'm waitin' in your welfare line

Well, I ain't got nothin'

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His welfare is my concern

No burden is he to bear, we'll get there

So, pass around the bottle, boys, let's talk about old times

Like rollin' in this bowl of sin, here on the welfare line

Served on the Georgia Road Gang

Come on give, make life worth living

Your welfare is my concern

Do a favour for me, I'll do one in return

Our bills are gonna be due, and the baby will soon be too

But, we draw our welfare check this week

Livin' on easy street

But you won't hear me cry and moan

A working man don't need no welfare line

Well, I'll never be a millionaire

And leave me all alone

Momma said to the welfare lady

Find my child a good home

Met myself a-coming, county welfare line

I was feeling strung out, hung out on the line

Welfare workers

Prying into her life

Good-bye my big house, my big car.

Now it's all up to welfare,

I hear that everybody's going there.

I ain't going down, I ain't going down, no I ain't

I ain't going down to the welfare store

It won't be long, before the democrats be back in again