(The Welfare) Turns Its Back on You - Freddie King

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