[Intro]
[D] [D7] [D] [D7] [D] [D7] [D] [D7]  

[Verse 1]
[D]                                                   [A]      [A7]  
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, and I'm Busted  
                                              [D]      [D7]  
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm Busted  
         [D]                       [D7]                    [G]  
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day  
     [A]                        [A7]                       [D]      [D7]  [D]  [D7]  
The county's gonna haul my belongings away, cause I'm Busted  

[Verse 2]
[D]                                                 [A]      [A7]  
I went to my brother to ask for a loan, cause I was Busted  
                                                     [D]      [D7]  
I hate to beg, like a dog without his bone, but I'm Busted  
     [D]                            [D7]                [G]  
My brother said, 'There ain't a thing I can do, my wife and my kids are all down with the flu  
    [A]                          [A7]                        [D]      [D7]  [D]  [D7]  
And I was just thinking about calling on you, cause I'm Busted  

[Verse 3]
[D]                                                [A]      [A7]  
Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he's Busted  
                                                      [D]      [D7]  
The food that we canned last summer is gone, and I'm Busted  
      [D]                          [D7]                [G]  
The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow, me and my family got to pack up and go  
     [A]                        [A7]                            [D]      [D7]  
But I'll make a living, just where I don't know, cause I'm Busted  

[Coda]
     [D]      [D7]       [D]      [D7]               [D]        [D7]      [D]      [D7]  
I'm broke,      no bread,       I mean like nothing,      forget it