Now what you gonna do, when the welfare turn it's back on you?   Now what you gonna do-hoo-hoo-hoo, when the welfare turn it's back on you   Now, 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   Now you look all through your hou-hou-house, yeah, you can't find a 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 it's back on you?   You be standin' there stranded,   There ain't a thing, there ain't a thing you   There ain't a thing-hing-hing-hing-hing,   that you can do