busted - ray charles

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:
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

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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