Welfare Line - Jimmy Dawkins

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