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Busted Lyrics

Artist: Ray Charles
Album: Busted

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 'cause 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,

Comments/Interpretations

by ray charles looooover on 11/8/2008 3:52am
this song is just tooo catchy and you can just FEEL the soul in the instruments and voice. for some reason when i listen to this i just want to laugh even though it's so dark themed

by Jon Buttars on 1/12/2009 1:04pm
Which CD is the "I'm Busted" song
on?

jonbuttars@hotmail.com

by catherine.cundick@yahoo.com on 1/15/2009 5:22pm
I would like to buy the CD with the BUSTED song on. Which one do I ask for?

by Catherine on 1/15/2009 5:27pm
I would like to buy the CD with the BUSTED song on. Which one do I ask for?
Heard this song on the Wogan Breakfast show.
This is one of the best songs I've heard in a long time. Great!

by poul Jep on 2/6/2009 1:58pm
The song is on the album "Ingredients in a recipe for soul" from around the mid 60's - on CD in 1990 I think. Good luck.

by Baxter Pancake on 3/2/2009 2:56pm
It's on a lot of his "Greatest Hits" collections too.

by Joey on 10/13/2009 3:08pm
i also laughed when i heard the song but i like very much :D

by Vijeta Dahiya on 2/10/2010 8:35am
The song is on the CD 'Genius' by Concord records. ultimate song, just a bit too good

by John K. Morris on 5/10/2010 10:30am
Another Harlan Howard master piece. And he wrote over 100 hits.

by Dave McLeish on 2/16/2011 9:30pm
I would by the CD but I'm busted.

by ashely on 4/9/2011 12:43pm
i would like to buy a cd with the song busted frm the dukes of hazzard movie

by torsten on 8/13/2011 12:57pm
check out the version by nazareth

by danny from Ethiopia on 11/14/2013 8:13am
this song is so cool..me love it when I heard it....cause I'm busted man....

by Neil from 510 on 11/18/2013 5:36pm
I grew up on a dairy farm - I feel your pain Ray !

by Tresfjording on 1/24/2014 2:28am
George Jones' got a very fine version og this remarkable sad song on his album "Hits I Missed... And One I Didn't"

by Hubert B Johnson on 4/19/2014 4:42pm
Please tell me Where I Easily can get this song on musical disc now, the Spring of 2014, in eastern-central Canada?