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 calling on you ´cause i´m busted.

well, i am 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 got to pack up and go,
but i´ll make a living, just where i don´t know cause i´m busted.

i´m broke, no bread, i mean like nothing,