Escrita por Harlan Howard, foi gravada e lançada inicialmente por ele mesmo em 1962. No entanto a nossa versão é a de Ray Charles, gravada e lançada em 1963. A versão de Ray chegou ao número 4 no Billboard HOT100 e foi lançada também no disco dele Ingredients for a recipe for soul, lançado em julho de 1963. Seria lançada também por Johnny Cash e a Familia Carter, também em 1963.
My
bills are all due and the baby needs shoes and I'm busted
Cotton
is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm busted
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
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
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 and I'm
busted
Well,
I am no thief, but a man can go wrong when he's busted
The food
that we canned last summer is gone and I'm busted
The fields are
all bare and the cotton won't grow
Me and my family got to pack up
and go
But I'll make a living, just where I don't know cause I'm
busted
I'm broke, no bread, I mean like nothing
Forget it, It's over...
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