Rez Band - Child Of The Blues lyrics

rate me

I grew up in a welfare state

Where the winters were cold

And the checks came late

With hand-medown clothes

And a hole in my heart

It seemed nothin' could fill

A child of the blues

Mamma was lonely

She left us at night

She said "You be good!"

An' locked door tight

But I couldn't sleep

For wonderin' if she would return

'Cause sometimes you lose

Mama was cryin'

When the sheriff came in

Like bein' on welfare

Is some kinda sin

All of your things

Tossed out in the street wish I knew what to do

But it ain't no use

They said that we're lazy

Ingorant poor

We get there too late

They locked up the door

The shelter is warm

But it sure ain't no home

Is this payin' your dues?

Child of the blues