My bills are all due and the babies need shoes

But i'm busted

Cotton is gone down to a quarter a pound

But i'm busted

I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay

A big stack of bills that get bigger each day

The county's gonna haul my belongings away

Cause i'm busted

Cause on my brother to ask for a loan

Cause i was busted

What i hate to beg like a dog for a bone

But i'm busted

My brother said there ain't a thing i can do

My wife and my kids are all down with the flu

And i was just thinkin' of callin' on you

Cause i'm busted

Lord i'm no thief but a man can go wrong

When he's busted

Busted

The food that we canned last summer is gone

I'm busted busted

Where the fields are all dry and the cotton won't grow

Me and my family gotta pack up and go

And i'll make a living just where i don't knows

Cause i'm busted

Yeah come broken

Busted