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lyrics

Motherhood: your first mistake – ooh!
Being black: bad habit, we’ll have to break you
Bad luck – Wisconsin’s had a spate
Welcome to the corporate welfare state, est. 1848

Drop that deadbeat child wherever you can
Get out of the house with our exciting program
We’ve been waiting too long on prison industry
Wisconsin Works and you’re gonna work for free

Wisconsin Works with a smile, smile, smile, smile
Got your face in file, sold your ass down Menomonee
Wisconsin Works, so get to work, work, work
Do your party for the slave economy

You want to pick up a skill? Here’s a hole, here’s a drill
You want education? We’ve got ditches to fill
You want to raise a family? Well, give ‘em to me
More stable than school or sandbox, I am slavery

Thompson, Hudson, Bradley, Murray
put you in production in a fury
of white plutocrat pomps and pride
The pimps and politicians will not be denied

Wisconsin Works with a smile, smile, smile, smile
Got your face in file, sold your ass down Menomonee
Wisconsin Works, so get to work, work, work
Do your party for the slave economy

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from Eric Blowtorch Plays Himself​!​!, track released January 1, 2013

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Eric Blowtorch Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Singer/guitarist/songwriter Eric Blowtorch sings, plays, and writes reggae, ska, rocksteady, soul, rock 'n' roll, funk, Latin, disco, hip-hop, Anglo-Afropop, and jazz songs with rhythm, melody, passion, and original comic timing. E. B. plays solo, in small combos, and with a band, Eric Blowtorch and the Bodyguards. ... more

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