Choctaw Bingo — James McMurtry
Chords and lyrics for Choctaw Bingo by James McMurtry (key of G).
Verse 1
[E]Strap them kids in, give 'em a lil bit of vodka
[E]In a cherry coke, we're goin' to Oklahoma[A][G]
[E]To the family reunion for the first time in years
[E]It's up at Uncle Slaton's 'cause he's getting on in [G]years[A]
[E]You know he longer travels but he's still pretty spry
[E]He's not much on talk and he's just too mean to die[A][G]
[E]And they'll be coming down and from Kansas and west Arkansas
[E]It'll be one big old party like you've never saw[A][G]
Verse 2
[E]Uncle Slaton's got his Texan pride
[E]Back in the thickets with his Asian bride[A][G]
[E]He's got an Airstream trailer and a Holstein cow
[E]Still makes whiskey cause he still knows how[A][G]
[E]He plays that Choctaw Bingo every Friday night
[E]You know he had to leave Texas but he won't say [G]why[A]
[E]He owns a quarter section up by Lake Eufala
[E]Caught a great big ole bluecat on a drifting jug[G] line[A]
[E]Sells his hardwood timber to the chipping mill
[E]Cooks that crystal meth because his 'shine don't [G]sell[A]
[E]He cooks that crystal meth because his 'shine don't sell
[E]You know he likes that money, he don't mind the [G]smell[A]
Verse 3
[E]My cousin Roscoe, Slaton's oldest boy
[E]From his second marriage up in Illinois[A][G]
[E]He's raised in east St Louis by his mama's people
[E]Where they do things different, thought he'd [G]come on [A]down
[E]He's goin' to Dallas, Texas in a semi truck
[E]Called from that big McDonald's you know that [G]one [A]that's built up on that
[E]Great big old bridge across the Will Rogers Turnpike
[E]Took the Big Cabin exit stopped and bought a [G]carton of[A] cigarettes
[E]At that Indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings
[E]And the Cherokee nations, hit Muskogee late that[G] [A]night, somebody
[E]Ran the stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass
[E]Roscoe tried to miss him but he didn't quite[A][G]
Verse 4
[E]Bob and Mae come up from some little town way down by
[E]Lake Texoma where he coaches football[A][G]
[E]They were two- A champions for two years running
[E]But he says they won't be this year, no, they won't [G]be [A]this year
[E]And he stopped off in Tuscka at that pop knife and gun place
[E]Bought a SKS rifle and a couple full cases of [G]that[A]
[E]Steel core ammo with the beardam primers
[E]From some East Bloc nation that no longer needs [G]'em[A]
[E]And a Desert Eagle, that's one great big old pistol
[E]I mean fifty caliber made by bad-ass Hebrews[A][G]
[E]And some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slaton's
[E]As soon as it gets dark, we're gonna have us a [G]time, [A]we're gonna have us a
time
Verse 5
[E]Ruth Anne and Lynn come from Baxter Springs
[E]That's one hell-raisin' town way up in [G]southeastern [A]Kansas
[E]Got a biker bar next to the lingerie store
[E]That's got Rolling Stones lips up there in [G]bright pink[A] neon
[E]And they're right downtown where everyone can see 'em
[E]and they burn all night, you know they burn all [G]night, [A]you know they burn
all night
Verse 6
[E]Ruth Anne and Lynn, they wear them cut-off britches
[E]And those skinny halters and they're second [G]cousins to[A] me
[E]Man I don't care, I want to get between 'em
[E]With a great big ole hardon like an old Bois [G]D'arc [A]fence post
[E]You could hang a pipe rail gate from do some
[E]Sister twisters till the cows come home and we'd[G] be [A]havin' us a time
Verse 7
[E]Uncle Slaton's got his Texan pride
[E]Back in the thickets with his Asian bride[A][G]
[E]He's cut that corner pasture into acre lots
[E]He sells them owner financed strictly to them[A][G]
[E]He's got no kind of credit 'cause he knows they're slackers
[E]And they'll miss that payment and he'll take it [G]back[A]
[E]He plays that choctaw bingo every Friday night
[E]He drinks his Johnny Walker at that Club 69[A][G]
[E]Were gonna strap those kids in, give 'em a lil bit of Benadryl
[E]In a Cherry Coke, we're going to Oklahoma[A][G]
[E]Gonna have us a time
[E]We're gonna have us a time[A][G]
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