Choctaw Bingo

Choctaw Bingo Lyrics

Song Choctaw Bingo
Artist James McMurtry
Album Americana Master Series: Best of the Sugar Hill Years
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[00:37.82] Strap them kids in
[00:39.49] Give 'em a little bit of vodka in a cherry coke
[00:44.09] We're going to Oklahoma to the family reunion for the first time in years
[00:51.19] It's up at uncle Slayton's cause he's getting on in years
[00:55.87] You know he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry
[01:01.16] He's not much on talking and he's just too mean to die
[01:05.54] And they'll be comin' down from Kansas
[01:07.80] and from west Arkansas
[01:10.28] It'll be one great big old party like you never saw
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[01:26.60] Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride
[01:30.54] Back in the thickets with his Asian bride
[01:35.21] He's got a Airstream trailer and a Holstein cow
[01:40.63] He still makes whiskey 'cause he still knows how
[01:44.42] He plats that Choctaw bingo every Friday night
[01:48.95] You know he had to leave Texas but he won't say why
[01:54.11] He owns a quarter section up by Lake Eufala
[01:58.76] Caught a great big ol' blue cat on a driftin' jug line
[02:03.48] Sells his hardwood timber to the shipping mill
[02:08.11] Cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell
[02:13.29] He cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell
[02:17.26] You know he likes his money he don't mind the smel
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[02:32.43] lMy cousin Roscoe Slayton's oldest boy from his second marriage up in Illinois
[02:40.99] He was raised in East St. Louis by his momma's people
[02:45.52] Where they do things different
[02:48.30] Thought he'd just come on down
[02:50.07] He was going to Dallas Texas in a semi truck called from that big McDonald's
[02:57.36] You know the one they built up on that great big ol' bridge
[03:02.11] Across the Will Rogers Turnpike
[03:04.42] Took the Big Cabin exit stopped and bought a couple of cartons of cigarettes
[03:09.29] At that Indian Smoke Shop with the big neon smoke rings
[03:13.87] In the Cherokee Nation hit Muskogee late that night
[03:18.07] Somebody ran a stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass
[03:23.00] Roscoe tried to miss 'em but he didn't quite
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[03:47.51] Bob and Mae come up from little town
[03:50.73] Way down by lake Texoma where he coaches football
[03:55.72] They were two A champions now for two years running
[04:00.29] But he says they won't be this year no they won't be this year
[04:05.39] And he stopped off in Tushka at that "Pop's Knife and Gun" place
[04:09.90] Bought a SKS rifle and a couple a full cases of that steel core ammo
[04:16.72] With the berdan primers from some east bloc nation that no longer needs 'em
[04:23.90] And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol
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[04:33.46] And some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slayton's
[04:38.71] Soon as it gets dark we're gonna have us a time
[04:42.30] We're gonna have us a time
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[05:20.65] Ruth Ann and Lynn come down from Baxter Springs
[05:24.25] That's one hell raisin' town way up in Southeastern Kansas
[05:28.96] Got a biker bar next to the lingerie store
[05:33.42] That's got them Rolling Stones lips up there where everyone can see 'em
[05:38.82] And they burn all night you know they burn all night you know they burn all night
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[06:06.38] Ruth Ann and Lynn they wear them cut off britches and those skinny little halters
[06:12.49] And they're second cousins to me
[06:15.63] Man I don't care I want to get between 'em
[06:19.34] With a great big ol' hard on like a old bois d' arc fence post
[06:24.93] You could hang a pipe rail gait from
[06:26.46] Do some twisted sisters 'til the cows come home
[06:30.75] And we'd be havin' us a time
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[07:09.30] Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride
[07:12.98] Back in the thickets with his Asian bride
[07:17.42] He's cut that corner pasture into acre lots`
[07:21.94] He sells 'em owner financed
[07:25.28] Strictly to them that's got no kind of credit
[07:29.10] 'Cause he knows they're slackers
[07:31.34] When they miss that payment
[07:33.71] Then he takes it back
[07:36.22] He plays that Choctaw Bingo every Friday night
[07:40.54] Drinks that Johnny Walker at that Club 69
[07:45.11] We're gonna strap them kids in give 'em a little bit o' Benadryl
[07:50.31] And a cherry coke we're goin' to Oklahoma Gonna have us a time
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