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[00:07.30]The bills are all due and my baby need shoes but I'm busted
[00:16.45]Cotton is down to a quarter a pound but I'm busted
[00:24.54]I got a cow that's gone dry and a hen that won't lay
[00:31.75]A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
[00:34.47]The county will haul my belongings away I'm busted
[00:39.97]I called brother Bill to get me a loan I was busted
[00:48.14]For I hate to beg like a dog for a bone but I'm busted
[00:56.27]But Bill said that there ain't a thing I can do
[01:02.57]My wife and my kids're all down with the flu
[01:07.08]And I was just thinking of calling on you I'm busted
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[01:30.63]Now Lord I'm no thief but a man can go wrong when he's busted
[01:36.08]The food that we canned last summer is gone I'm busted
[01:44.16]The fields're all bare and the cotton won't grow
[01:50.52]Me and my family's got to pack up and go
[01:55.07]But I'll make a living the Lord only knows I'm busted
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