Busted

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,
forget it, it's over.