Busted:Ray Charles.
#4 in 1963.
             (Capo 1st fret.)

#1.
D (xx0232@1)                                                    A (x02220@1)    A7 (x02020@1)      
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, and I'm busted.
A (x02220@1)                                          DCotton (xx0232@1)is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm busted.
D (xx0232@1)                             D7I (xx0212@1)got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay,
  Ga (320003@1)big stack of bills that gets bigger each day..
    A (x02220@1)                                               DThe (xx0232@1)county's gonna haul my belongings away, cause I'm busted.

#2.
D (xx0232@1)                                                 A (x02220@1)   A7I (x02020@1)went to my brother to ask for a loan, cause I was busted.
A (x02220@1)                                                 DI (xx0232@1)hate to beg, like a dog without his bone, but I'm busted.
DMy (xx0232@1)brother said, 'There ain't a thing I can do,
   Gmy (320003@1)wife and my kids are all down with the flu,
    A (x02220@1)                                                 Dand (xx0232@1)I was just thinking about calling on you, cause I'm busted.'

#3.
D (xx0232@1)                                                    A (x02220@1)   A7Well, (x02020@1)I am no thief, but a man can go wrong, when he's busted.
A (x02220@1)                                                  DThe (xx0232@1)food that we canned last summer is gone, and I'm busted.
D (xx0232@1)                             D7The (xx0212@1)fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow,
Gme (320003@1)and my family got to pack up and go,
    A (x02220@1)                                                    Dbut (xx0232@1)I'll make a living, just where I don't know, cause I'm busted.

OUTRO:
DI'm (xx0232@1)broke, no bread, I mean like nothing...(Fade.)


A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.


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