My bills are all due and the babies need shoes but I´m busted
Cotton is down to a quater a pound and I´m busted
I´ve got a cow that went dry and a hen that won´t lay

A big stack of bills that get bigger each day EE
The County will haul my belongings away I´m busted!

I went to my brother to ask for a loan I was busted
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 thinking of calling on you I´m busted!

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 I´m 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 livin´ the Lord only knows but I´m busted!