Choctaw Bingo-James McMurtry

[00:00.00] [00:37.00] [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 [01:15.98] [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 [02:22.44] [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 [03:27.83] [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 [04:28.55] [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 [04:45.05] [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 [05:49.58] [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 [06:33.92] [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 [07:57.13] [07:57.54] [08:45.15]