Well, I never worked much. In fact, I've been poor all my life.Just about all I really owned was ten kids and a wife.Of course, this house I live in, it ain't nothing but a shack.I always managed somehow to buy me a brand new Cadillac.Back door steps, eh? Doesn't fail to plumb down.Front screen door's off, laying somewhere out there on the ground.Wind just whooped another piece of that old tar roofing off the back.I sure hope it don't skin up that new Cadillac.Front porch post, of course, they done all come loose at the bottom.It don't make no sense to fix them. That floor just too darn rotten.Of course, in winter, we sometimes have some snow that blows into the cracks.Of course, when it gets too darn bad, we just all wad up and sleep out there in that new Cadillac.I know the place ain't much, but I sure don't pay no rent.I get a check the first of every month from this big federal government.Of course, every Wednesday, I pick up them commodities.Why, sometimes four or five sacks.Pick them up.Down there's the welfare office.Of course, I'm driving that new Cadillac.Now, some folks say I'm crazy.In fact, I've even been called a fool.But my kids get free books, all them free lunches down there at school.We get peanut butter and cheese.Man, they give us flour with the sacks.Of course, we...Welfare checks make the payments on that new Cadillac.But you know, the way that I really look at it,these other folks are fools.They're all out there just working, paying taxes,sending my ten young'uns to school.Salvation Army cuts their hair and gives us the clothes we wear on the back.Because we kind of like to dress up and ride around,show off that new Cadillac.But you know, it ain't gonna get better yet.At least, that's what I understand.Why, they tell me this new president just put in a heck of a new poverty plan.Why, they say he's gonna send us poor folks money.Man, we gonna get it out here in stacks.The fact is, why shopping around right now for her new Cadillac?I can't tell you how high that now is.We just happen to live an insipid life.I know where we're headed.Not sure if she will or what she will make up her mind.
