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 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 are all bare and the cotton won't grow