Welfare Blues - John Lee Hocker

You know I’m goin' to the welfare

Ask them can they help me some?

You know I’m goin' to the welfare

Lord, Lord, Lord

Ask them can they help me some?

This ninety day strike been so long

It 'bout to get the best a-me

Lord, my wife and my children

Lord, they cry both night and day

Lord, my wife and my children

Lord, they cry both night and day

This doggone strike soon gonna end

I don’t see how I can last much longer

You know it’s been ninety days

Ninety days, ninety days

People and I sure don’t see no end

It’s been ninety days, already

It’s been ninety days, been ninety days

Are over and I sure don’t see no end

My wife and my baby, my baby

Lord, they grieve, cry over me

Lord have mercy

Daddy, what in the world you gonna do?