The bills are all due and the babies need shoes but I'm busted   Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted   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's gonna haul my belongings away I'm busted   I called brother Bill and I asked for a loan I was busted   Lord I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted   But Bill said there ain't a thing I can do   My wife and the kids they're all down with the flu   And I was just thinking of callin' on you I'm busted   [ guitar ]   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 and we're busted   The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow   Me and my family's gotta pack up and go   Where I'll make a living the Lord only knows I'm busted