Busted (video)

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1. My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, and I’m busted,

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cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I’m busted.

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I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won’t lay,

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a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day,

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the county’s gonna haul my belongings away, cause I’m busted.

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2. I went to my brother to ask for a loan, ‘cause I was busted,

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I hate to beg like a dog without his bone, but I’m busted.

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My brother said: There ain’t a thing I can do,

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my wife and my kids are all down with the flu,

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and I was just thinking about calling on you, and I’m busted.

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3. Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he’s busted,

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the food that we canned last summer is gone, and I’m busted.

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The fields are all bare and the cotton won’t grow,

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me and my family got to pack up and go,

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but I’ll make a living, just where, I don’t know, ‘ cause I’m busted.

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+ I’m broke, no bread, I mean like nothing, forget it …

(orig. = capo 1st) (Ray Charles)