Ray Charles – Busted (Ukulele)

C                                                      F      G7        
My bills are all due and the baby needs shoes, and I'm busted.

F                                            C
Cotton is down to a quarter a pound, but I'm busted.

C                               C7
I got a cow that went dry and a hen that won't lay,

  F
a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day..

    F                                                 C
The county's gonna haul my belongings away, cause I'm busted.

C                                                   F     G7
I went to my brother to ask for a loan, cause I was busted.

F                                                   C
I hate to beg, like a dog without his bone, but I'm busted.

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

   F
my wife and my kids are all down with the flu,

    F                                                   C
and I was just thinking about calling on you, cause I'm busted.'

C                                                      F     G7
Well, I am no thief, but a man can go wrong, when he's busted.

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

C                               C7
The fields are all bare and the cotton won't grow,

F
me and my family got to pack up and go,

    F                                                      C
but I'll make a living, just where I don't know, cause I'm busted.

C
I'm broke, no bread, I mean like nothing...(Fade.)