busted - burl ives

Busted
Written by: Harlan Howard
First recording: Busted by Burl Ives (May 26, 1962)
First release: Busted by Burl Ives on audio album Burl (1962)


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Lyrics:
The bills are all due and my babies need shoes
But I'm busted
We’ve have hard times as they close down the minds
We’re busted

Got a cow that’s gone dry and a hen that won't lay
A big stack of bills that gets bigger each day
Tomorrow they’ll haul I belongs a way
We’re busted.

Our friends are all living
This old my little town
They’re busted
They’re heading the
With their worked to be found
Then trusted

Lord I hate to gave up this
Acre of land
It’s spending the family
Since finding the gap
But babies get hungry
They don’t understand
Their dad’s busted

I called brother Bill or I ask for a loan
Busted
Lord, I hate to beg like a dog reborn
I'm busted

But Bill lost his job
Then the rents overdue
His wife and his kids are all down with the flu,
He sat of these thinking of calling on you
I'm busted.

Now Lord, I am no thief, but a man can turn bang
When he's busted
My babies are equal, they driving me mad
I'm busted

I’ll sale then green zee and I’ll give up the shake
Oh Billy oh Suzy help mama get pack
We’re heading up northern we ain’t coming back
We’re busted

Singers:
1. Burl Ives 1962 2. Johnny Cash with The Carter Family December 1962 3. Ray Charles and His Orchestra  (billboard hot 100) 1963 4. Kitty Wells January 1964 5. Kai Winding August 1964 6. Johnny Tillotson November 1964 7. Billy Vaughn 1964 8. Faron Young 1964 9. Harlan Howard November 1965 10. Charley Pride September 1966 11. Waylon Jennings March 1967 12. The Robert DeCormier Singers 1967 13. Nazareth November 1977 14. Hazel Dickens 1980 15. Chris LeDoux 1982 16. Johnny Russell 1989 17. Killer Joe October 8, 1991 18. The Waldos August 5, 1994 19. Jonboy Langford & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts 1995 20. Andre Williams and The Sadies 1999 21. John Scofield June 7, 2005 22. George Jones September 13, 2005 23. Patty Loveless September 29, 2009 24. Wanda Jackson January 28, 2011 25. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis featuring Norah Jones 2011

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