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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, forget it, over.
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, forget it, over.
| christopherwoods (West Midlands, United Kingdom) | Posted: Sep 24, 2012 - 09:03 Something very weird with Ray's vocal in this cut. Sounds like it's been lifted from an earlier recording and badly noise processed, it's all horrible and squelchy whilst the rest of the track is crisp, clear and noise-free. Bill, where did you get this particular sound recording from? |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 11:16 Derecho wrote: How could this have NOT been part of RP's playlist until now? I think it had something to do with the El Niño-Southern Oscillation. That, or aliens... Great tune. |
| Stingray | Posted: Jul 23, 2012 - 11:08 kingart wrote: Until very recently — like, yesterday — this could have been my theme song. Sing it out, Ray! explain.... |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Apr 19, 2012 - 11:04 Until very recently — like, yesterday — this could have been my theme song. Sing it out, Ray! |
| Cynaera (In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.) | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 12:05 finoufk wrote: maybe because it's so old fasioned ? This from the one who rated Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" an 8???? |
| kingart (Brooklyn NY) | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 12:03 Theme music for the last five years. |
| PA1749 (Room 106) | Posted: Dec 14, 2011 - 12:01 Perfect theme for this time of year. Man I'm broke! |
| finoufk (Bordeaux - france) | Posted: Oct 12, 2011 - 05:42 Derecho wrote: How could this have NOT been part of RP's playlist until now? maybe because it's so old fasioned ? |
| dpvest (northern cali) | Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 08:54 no bread...I mean...nothin'... |
| bmeador (24fps) | Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 08:54 Man, he just keeps on doing it. As I've gotten older and delved a lot more deeply into his catalog (not just the pop culture songs everyone knows), Ray Charles continues to impress. The dude could just belt it out. |
| nalle (Malmo, Sweden) | Posted: Aug 10, 2011 - 08:53 Outstanding? Yes! |
| sirdroseph (Yes) | Posted: Jun 08, 2011 - 08:41 |
| Jelani (Home of the freak, land of the vague) | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 15:23 Apropos for the times. |
| unclehud (300 feet above the planet) | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 15:23 Pun with his arrest and blacklisting? |
| Derecho (A Land Without Traffic Lights) | Posted: Mar 05, 2011 - 15:22 How could this have NOT been part of RP's playlist until now? |
