Ben Colder - Welfare Cadillac lyrics

You know I've never worked much in fact I've been poor all my life I guess all I really own is ten kids and a wife This house I live in is mine but it's really a shack But I've always managed somehow to drive me a brand new Cadillac The backdoor steps they done fell plumb down The front screen door's off and laying somewhere out there on the ground The wind just now whooped up another piece of that tar roofing off the back I sure hope it don't skin up that new Cadillac The front porch posts fell loose at the bottom It don't make no sense to fix 'em cause that floor's just too darn rotten In the winter sometimes we have snow blowing through the cracks If it gets too bad we all just pile up and sleep out there in that new Cadillac I know the place ain't much but I sure don't pay no rent And I get a check the first of every month from this here Federal Government Every Wednesday I get the commodities sometime four or five sacks I always Pick 'em up down at the welfare office driving that new Cadillac Some folks say I'm crazy and I've even been called a fool But my kids get free books and all them there free lunches at school But we get beer and crackfood and man they give us flour by the sack Course them welfare checks they meet the payments on this new Cadillac Now the way that I see it these other folks are the fools They're working and paying taxes just to send my younguns to school The Salvation Army cuts their hair and gives them clothes to weear on their backs So we can dress up and ride along and show off this new Cadillac But things are still gonna get better yet at least that's what I understand They tell me this new President done put in a whole new powerty plan He's gonna send us poor folks money we're gonna get it out there in stacks In fact my wife's already shopping around for her new Cadillac