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Welfare Blues Lyrics

The song Welfare Blues is performed by John Lee Hooker in the album named Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings 48-52 in the year 1995 .

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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?



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John Lee Hooker - Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings 48-52

Alternative Boogie: Early Studio Recordings 48-52
Oct 1995
  1. Come Back Baby
  2. Forgive Me
  3. Streets Is Filled With Women
  4. Moon Is Rising
  5. Whistle Done Blown
  6. Turnin' Gray Blues
  7. She Was In Chicago
  8. Lord Taketh My Baby Away
  9. Just Like A Woman
  10. Throw This Old Dog A Bone
  11. Johnny Lee's Mood (Original One Voice)
  12. Miss Eloise, Miss Eloise
  13. Crying All Night
  14. Welfare Blues
  15. Johnny Lee's Original Boogie
  16. She Left Me By Myself
  17. Out The Door I Went
  18. My Baby She's Long And Tall (1995 Digital Remaster)
  19. No Mortgage On My Soul
  20. I Come To You Baby
  21. I Rule My Den
  22. The Great Disaster Of 1936
  23. The Winding Highway (1995 Digital Remaster)
  24. She Quit Me
  25. How Long Can This Go On
  26. Can I Say Hello
  27. I Had A Dream
  28. Me And A Woman
  29. Throw My Money Around
  30. Well I Got To Leave
  31. I Gotta Be Comin' Back (1995 Digital Remaster)
  32. I Don't Be Welcome Here
  33. Two Voice Original Mood
  34. I'm In The Mood (Three Voice Original Mood) (Digitally Remastered 95)
  35. Johnny Says Come Back
  36. The Story Of A Married Woman
  37. Snap Them Fingers Boogie (1995 Digital Remaster)
  38. Lord What More Can I Do?
  39. Baby Please Don't Go (1995 Digital Remaster)
  40. I'm Going Away (Digitally Remastered 95)
  41. Hummin' The Blues
  42. Johnny Lee And The Thing (1995 Digital Remaster)
  43. Slow Down Your Chatter Baby
  44. I Did Everything
  45. Someone To Love - Take 1
  46. Someone To Love - Take 2
  47. There's A Day Comin' Baby
  48. I Was Beggin' My Baby
  49. Nobody To Talk To Me
  50. I'm Gonna Whip Ya Baby
  51. It's A Crime And A Shame
  52. I Met The Grindin' Man
  53. Louisiana Blues For You
  54. Long, Long Way From Home (1995 Digital Remaster)
  55. Sometime
  56. T.B.'s Killin' Me (1995 Digital Remaster)