well my bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and i m busted cotton is down to a quarter of a pound 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 s gonna haul my belongings away i m busted i went to my brother to ask for a loan cause i was busted now i hate to beg like a dog for a bone but i was busted my brother said there s not 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 though i am no thief but a man can go wrong if he s busted the food that we canned last summer is gone i m busted now the fields are all bare and the cotton won t grow me and my wife we gotta pack up and go i ll make a living just how i don t know cause i m busted