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      G                                                                            D7

My bills are all due and the babies need shoes, but I'm busted.

                                                                       G

Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, and I'm busted.

I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay;

   C

a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day.

         D7

The county will haul my belongings away. I'm

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busted.

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  G                                                                D7

I went to my brother to ask for a loan; I was busted.

                                                                   G

I hate to beg like a dog for a bone, but I'm busted.

My brother said, "There ain't a thing I can do.

      C      

My wife and my kids are all down with the flue,

        D7

and I was just thinkin' of callin' on you. I'm

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busted."

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G                                                                                D7

Lord, I'm no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted.

                                                                                     G

The food that we canned last summer is gone, and I'm busted.

The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow.

C

Me and my family gotta pack up and go.

           D7

Where I'll make a livin' the Lord only knows, but I'm

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busted.

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