My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes
And I´m busted
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound
But I´m busted
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won´t lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
The county´s gonna haul my belongings away
´Cause I´m busted.

I went to my brother to ask for a loan
´Cause I was busted
I hate to beg like a dog without his 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 thinking about callin´ on you
And I´m busted.

Well I am no thief but a man can go wrong
When he´s busted
The food that we packed that last summer is gone
And I´m busted
The fields are all bare and the cotton won´t grow
Me and my fam´ly got to pack up and go
But I´ll make a living just where I don´t know
´Cause I´m busted.