Busted

Album: Ingredients In A Recipe For Soul (1963)
Charted: 21 4
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  • Yeah
    Oh, no, no, no
    Well, I know

    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 his bone
    But I'm busted, I'll 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, he's busted
    The food that we canned last summer is gone
    And I'm busted right now
    Well, the fields are all 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 Writer/s: Harlan Howard
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • J.d. from Detroit, MiThe lyrics here are different than what I heard on the "best of" album. I submitted the version from that album.
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