A
The bills are all due and my baby needs shoes 
        E7
But I'm busted
 
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound 
        A      D A E7 ../
But I'm busted
        A 
I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay 
  D
A big stack of bills that get bigger each day 
    E7
The county's gonna haul my belongings away 
    A       D A E7 ../ A
I'm busted. 
 
I called brother Bill, thought I'd get me a loan 

I was busted 

Lord, 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 are all down with the flu, 

And I was just thinkin' about callin' 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 

Me and my family's gotta pack up and go 

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

I'm busted. 
 
SOURCE: CHARLEY PRICE-COUNTRY CHARLEY PRIDE/1966 RCA LSP-3645