A5
The bills are all due and my baby needs shoes 
        E5
But I'm busted
 
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound 
        A5      D5 A5 E5 ../
But I'm busted
        A5 
I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay 
  D5
A big stack of bills that get bigger each day 
    E5
The county's gonna haul my belongings away 
    A5       D5 A5 E5 ../ A5
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