When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You Chords by Albert Collins

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_ _ _ _ [A] Now [C] what you gonna _ do _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Now what you gonna do when the welfare turn its back on you? _ _ _
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[D] You'll be standing there stranded, _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [G] _ you look all through your house, _ [C] _ _
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[E] yes you can't find [G] a piece of _ bread.
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[D] Sometime you begin to wonder,
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_ _ [Gm] Now what you gonna do _ _
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go down to the welfare, _ _ _ give them money to _ report.
_ _ _ _ Some pain they say to you, _ _ _ _ where should they get you go? _ _
_ If you tell them you sick, _ _ _ _ you better have a bad cough. _ _ _
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the welfare turn its [G] back on you?
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_ _ _ [C] _ there [Gm] ain't a thing, _ _ _ there ain't a [Em] thing y'all, [Gm] _ _ [N] there ain't a thing _ _ _ _ _ _ _ that you can do.
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