Lyrics to
Welfare Mothers

This version of Welfare Mothers was released by Neil Young in 1979.

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People, pick up
on what I’m puttin’ down now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

Down at every
Laundromat in town now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

While they’re washin’
you can hear this sound now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

Divorcee!

Hard to believe
that love is free now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

Out on the street
with the whole family now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

Hard to believe
that love is free now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

Divorcee!

People, pick up
on what I’m puttin’ down now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

Down in every
Laundromat in town now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

While they’re washin’
you can hear this sound now

Welfare mothers
make better lovers

Divorcee!

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Welfare Mothers, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1979 song by Neil Young. Some of the lyrics to Welfare Mothers have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Neil Young and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Welfare Mothers if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Welfare Mothers" means the words set to the music of Welfare Mothers, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Neil Young. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Welfare Mothers and the lyrics to Welfare Mothers are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Neil Young who came here looking just for the lyrics to Welfare Mothers, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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