[Verse 1]

My bills are all due and the babies need shoes

But I'm busted

Cotton is down to a quarter a pound

And I'm busted

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay

A big stack of bills that get bigger each day

The county will haul my belongings away

I'm busted

[Verse 2]

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"

[Verse 3]

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 gotta pack up and go

Where I'll make a living, the Lord only knows

But I'm busted