(Harlan Howard)      The bills are all due and my baby need shoes but I'm busted   Cotton is 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 gets bigger each day   The county will haul my belongings away, I'm busted,      I called brother Bill to get me a loan, I was busted   For I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted   But Bill said that there ain't a thing I can do   My wife and my kids're all down with the flu   And I was just thinking of calling on you, I'm busted.      --- Instrumental ---      Now Lord, I'm no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted   The food that we canned last summer is gone, I'm busted   The fields're all bare and the cotton won't grow   Me and my family's got to pack up and go   But I'll make a living the Lord only knows, I'm busted...