When the Welfare Turns Its Back On You

Albert Collins

Blues

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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

Albert Collins

Guitar

A.C. Reed

Tenor Saxophone

Allen Batts

Keyboards

Aron Burton

Bass

Casey Jones

Drums

Chuck Smith

Baritone Saxophone

Larry Burton

Guitar

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Lucious Weaver

Lyrics

Sonny Thompson

Lyrics

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

Bruce Iglauer

Producer

Dick Shurman

Producer

Eddie B. Flick

Assistant Engineer

Fred Breitberg

Engineer

Richard McLeese

Richard McLeese

Producer

Lyrics

Now what you gonna do

When the welfare turns its back on you?

Now what you gonna do

When the welfare turns its back on you?

There you'll be standin' there stranded

There ain't a thing that you can do

Now you look all through your house

Yes, you can't find a piece of bread

Now you look all through your house

Yeah, you can't find no piece of bread

Sometime you begin to wonder

If you be better off, better off dead

You go down to the welfare

Give 'em one, two report

Something they sellin' you

Will surely get your goat

If you tell 'em you sick

You better have a bad cough

'Cause if you don't

They be ready to throw you off

What you gonna do

When the welfare turns its back on you?

You be standin' there stranded

There ain't a thing, there ain't a thing you

Ain't a thing

That you can do

Written by: Lucious Weaver, Sonny Thompson

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