choctaw bingo

Singer:james mcmurtry

strap them kids in

give 'em a little bit of vodka

in a cherry coke

we're goin' to oklahoma

to the family reunion for the first time in years

it's up at uncle slaton's 'cause he's getting' on in years. no longer travels but he's still pretty spry

not much on talk and he's too mean to die

and they'll be comin' down from kansas and from west arkansas

it'll be one big old party like you've never saw. uncle slaton's got his texan pride

back in the thickets with his asian bride

he's got an airstream trailer and a holstein cow

still makes whiskey 'cause he still knows how. plays that chocktaw bingo every friday night

you know he had to leave texas but he won't say why

he owns a quarter section up by lake eufala

caught a great big old bluecat on a driftin' jugline. sells his hardwood timber to the chippin' mill

cooks that crystal meth because his shine don't sell

he cooks that crystal meth because his shine don't sell

you know he likes that money

he don't mind the smell. my cousin roscoe

slaton's oldest boy

from his second marriage up in illinois

he's raised in east st louis by his mamma's people

where they do things different thought he'd come on down. he's goin' to dallas texas in a semi truck

caught from that big mcdonalds

you know that one thats built up on that

big old bridge across the will rogers turnpike

took the big cabin exit stopped and bought a carton of cigarets. at that indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings

in the cherokee nation hit muskogee late that night

somebody ran the stoplight at the shawnee bypass

roscoe tried to miss him but he didn't quite. bob and mae come up from some little town

way down by lake texoma where he coaches football

they were two a champions now for for two years running

but he says they won't be this year

no they wont be this year. and he stopped off in tushka at the pop knife and gun place

bought a sks rifle and a couple full cases of that

steel core ammo with the berdan primers

from some east bloc nation that no longer needs 'em. and a desert eagle thats one great big old pistol

i mean fifty caliber made by bad-ass hebrews

and some surplus tracers for that old bar

of slaton's as soon as it gets dark

we're gonna have us a time

we're gonna have us a time. ruth-anne and lynn come down from baxter springs

that's one hell-raisin' town way down in south eastern kansas

got a biker bar next to the lingerie store

that's got rolling stones lips up there in bright pink neon

and they're right downtown where everyone can see 'em

and they burn all night

you know they burn all night

you know they burn all night. ruth ann and lynn they wear them cut off britches

and those skinny little halters and they're second cousins to me

man

i don't care i want to get between 'em

with a great big ol' hard on like a old bois d'arc fence post

you could hang a pipe rail gate from do some sister twisters

'til the cows come home and we'd be havin' us a time. uncle slaton's got his texan pride

back in the thickets with his asian bride

he's got a corner pasture and an acre lots

he sells them owner financed strictly to them. it's got no kind of credit 'cause he knows they're slackers

and they'll miss that payment and he takes it back

plays that choctaw bingo every friday night

he drinks his johnny walker at that club 69

we're gonna strap those kids in give em a lil bit of benadryl

and a cherry coke we're goin' to oklahoma

we're gonna have us a time

we're gonna have us a time.