yeah my bills are all due and the baby needs shoes but i m busted cotton is down to a quarter a pound but i m busted right now 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 right now oh yes i am well i went to my brother to ask for a loan cause i was busted i hate to beg like a dog without a bone but i m busted i tell ya 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 myself well that s what he told me yeah i am no thief but a man can go wrong when he s busted the food that we canned the last summer is gone and i m busted right now well the fields all are bare and the cotton won t grow me and my family got to pack up and go i ll make a living where i don t know cause i m busted today y all know i m broke i ain t got no money i m talkin bout empty pockets ah forget it ah to hell with it yeah