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     My bills are all due and the babies need shoes, but I'm busted. Cotton 
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is down to a quarter a pound, and I'm busted. I got a cow that went dry and 
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a hen that won't lay, a big stack of bills that gets bigger each day, the
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county will haul my belongings away, I'm busted. I went to my brother to ask
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for a loan, I was busted. I hate to beg like a dog for a bone, but I'm
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busted. My brother said there ain't a thing I can do, my wife and the kids
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are all down with the flu, and I was just thinkin of callin on you, I'm
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busted.