James McMurtry - Choctaw Bingo lyrics
rate meStrap them kids in give 'em a little bit of vodka<br />
In a Cherry Coke, we're going to Oklahoma<br />
To the family reunion for the first time in years<br />
It's up at uncle Slayton's 'cause he's getting on in years<br />
<br />
You know he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry<br />
He's not much on talking and he's just too mean to die<br />
And they'll be comin' down from Kansas and from west Arkansas<br />
It'll be one great big old party like you never saw<br />
<br />
Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride<br />
Back in the thickets with his Asian bride<br />
He's got a Airstream trailer and a Holstein cow<br />
He still makes whiskey 'cause he still knows how<br />
<br />
He plays that Choctaw Bingo every Friday night<br />
You know he had to leave Texas but he won't say why<br />
He owns a quarter section up by Lake Eufala<br />
Caught a great big ol' blue cat on a driftin' jug line<br />
<br />
Sells his hardwood timber to the shipping mill<br />
Cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell<br />
He cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell<br />
You know he likes that money, he don't mind the smell<br />
<br />
My cousin Roscoe, Slayton's oldest boy<br />
From his second marriage up in Illinois<br />
He's raised in East St. Louis by his momma's people<br />
Where they do things different thought he'd just come down<br />
<br />
He was going to Dallas, Texas in a semi truck<br />
Called from that big McDonald's, you know the one that's built up<br />
On that great big ol' bridge across the Will Rogers Turnpike<br />
Took the Big Cabin exit, stopped and bought a cartons of cigarettes<br />
<br />
At that Indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings<br />
In the Cherokee Nation hit Muskogee late that night<br />
Somebody ran a stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass<br />
Roscoe tried to miss 'em but he didn't quite<br />
<br />
Bob and Mae come up from some little town<br />
Way down by Lake Texoma where he coaches football<br />
They were two a champions now for two years running<br />
But he says they won't be this year, no they won't be this year<br />
<br />
And he stopped off in Tushka at that Pop's Knife and Gun place<br />
Bought a SKS rifle and a couple full cases<br />
Of that steel core ammo with the Berdan primers<br />
From some East bloc nation that no longer needs 'em<br />
<br />
And a Desert Eagle that's one great big ol' pistol<br />
I mean, 50 caliber made by bad ass Hebrews<br />
And some surplus tracers for that old bar of Slayton's<br />
Soon's it gets dark we're gonna have us a time<br />
We're gonna have us a time<br />
<br />
Ruth Ann and Lynn come down from Baxter Springs<br />
And that's one hell raisin' town way up in Southeastern Kansas<br />
Got a biker bar next to the lingerie store<br />
That's got them Rolling Stones lips up there<br />
<br />
in bright pink neon<br />
And they ride down town where everyone can see 'em<br />
And they burn all night, you know they burn all night<br />
You know they burn all night<br />
<br />
Ruth Ann and Lynn, they wear them cut off britches<br />
And those skinny little halters and they're second cousins to me<br />
Man I don't care I want to get between 'em<br />
With a great big ol' hard on like a old Bois D' Arc fence post<br />
You could hang a pipe rail gate from do some<br />
Sisters twisted 'til the cows come home and we'd be havin' us a time<br />
<br />
Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride<br />
Back in the thickets with his Asian bride<br />
He's cut that corner pasture into acre lots<br />
He sells 'em owner financed strictly to them<br />
<br />
That's got no kind of credit 'cause he knows they're slackers<br />
When they miss that payment, then he takes it back<br />
He plays that Choctaw Bingo every Friday night<br />
He drinks his Johnny Walker at that Club 69<br />
<br />
We're gonna strap them kids in give 'em a little bit O' Benadryl<br />
And a Cherry Coke we're goin' to Oklahoma<br />
Gonna have us a time, gonna have us a time<br /><br />
