My bills are all due and the babies need shoes but I'm busted <br />Cotton is down to a quater a pound and I'm busted <br />I've got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay <br />A big stack of bills that get bigger each day EE <br />The County will haul my belongings away I'm busted! <br /> <br />I went to my brother to ask for a loan I was busted <br />I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted <br />My brother said there ain't a thing I can do <br />My wife and my kids are all down with the flu <br />And I was just thinking of calling on you I'm busted! <br /> <br />Lord I'm no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted <br />The food that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted <br />The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow <br />Me and my family's gotta pack up and go <br />Where I'll make a livin' the Lord only knows but I'm busted!