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From: FAB6 USER <fab6user@fabsix.hlo.dec.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 04, 1998 3:45 PM
Subject: "Waitin'_In_Your_Welfare_Line" by Buck Owens


WAITIN' IN YOUR WELFARE LINE
Performed by Buck Owens & the Buckaroos
Source album: Buck Owens Live At Carnegie Hall (CD)
Transcription by Eric M. Phillips

NOTE:  I believe that both Buck Owens and Don Rich (lead guitar) and
probably
Doyle Holly (bass) all tuned their guitars a half-tone down in this album.
So
get your gold-flake Telecaster ;^) and lower the strings to
Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb
and play the chords as written.

NOTE #2  This live cut differs from the studio cut in that Buck flubbed the
words to the second verse!  For completeness, I am including the studio cut
lyrics.  Enjoy!
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INTRO:             G         Em                    A7               D7
G
 I got the hun-gries for your love, and I'm waitin' in your welfare line.

VERSE 1
                 G                         Em                       C   D7
G
 Well, I ain't got nothin' but the shirt on my back, and an old two-button
suit
   G        C                 D7          G
 I walked outta my job about a week ago, and I'm sleepin' in a telephone
booth
             G                          Em              C       D7
G
 But I'm a-gonna be the richest guy around, the day you say you're mine
            G        Em                    A7              D7      G
 I got the hungries for your love and I'm waitin' in your welfare line

VERSE 2
 Well, when I first met you babe, you nearly made me wreck my ol' '49
Cadillac
 Yeah I knew at a glance that it was you for me; I had to have your love by
heck
 I'm gonna follow you baby wherever you go; I got nothin' to lose but my
time
 I got the hungries for your love, and I'm waitin' in your welfare line

LEAD SOLO - Same as the last two lines of the verse!

VERSE 3
 Well, you made me the top dog of your hill, and I was overjoyed
 But it didn't take long until the thrill was gone, I joined the ranks of
the unemployed
 Now I'm right back where that I started from, but I ain't gonna change my
mind
 I got the hungries for your love, and I'm waitin' in your welfare line
 I'm waitin' in your welfare line (Gimme a handout)
 I'm waitin' in your welfare line.

Dedicated with love to the late DON RICH - miss ya, hoss.
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