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Looking At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song)

This version of Looking At Tomorrow (A Welfare Song) was released by Beach Boys in 1971.

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I’ve been laying on my back
Like a freight train off a track
Trying to find a job to fit my trade
With the morning sun come ’round
Well I’ll be covering plenty of ground
And I don’t need nobody to pay my aid
Mmmm pay my aid

Now Bess and me were feeling bad
And all the good jobs they were had
I had to take to sweeping up some floors
Well I don’t mind that so much
Or the changing of my luck
But you know I could be doing so much more

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Bip bip bip bip bip bip bip bip bip bip

Well I’ll be coming home tonight
Everything will be all right
And we’ll be looking at tomorrow

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