Busted* Songtext / Lyric

Yeah, my bills are all due and the baby needs shoes but I'm busted

Cotton is down, quarter a pound but I'm busted, oh yeah

I got cow that went dry, hen that won't lay

Big stack of bills gettin' bigger each day

County's gonna haul my name, know that I went and I'm busted, I am, yeah






Well, I went to my brother to ask for a loan 'cause I was busted

But I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted

But my brother said, "There ain't a thing I can do

My wife and my kids are all down with the flu

I was just thinking about calling on you 'cause I'm busted"



And I am no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted

The food that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted, no, no, no

Well, the fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow

And my family and I had to pack up and go

I'll make a living, my Lord, how I don't know 'cause I'm busted