Choctaw Bingo Chords by Ray Wylie Hubbard

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_ [A] _ _ [E] _ Strap them kids and give them a little bit of vodka and a chair of coke.
We're [G] going to [A] Oklahoma to [E] the family reunion for the first time in years.
It's up at Uncle Slate and [G] cause he's getting [A] on in years.
You know [E] he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry.
_ He's not much on top and [G] he's just too mean [A] to die.
And they'll [E] be coming down from Kansas and from West Arkansas.
It'll be one big old party [G] like you never [A] saw.
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_ [A] _ _ [E] _ Uncle Slate has got his Texan pride.
Back in the thickets [G] with his [A] Asian braids.
He's got [E] a hair string trailer and a old steam cow.
He still makes whiskey [G] cause he still [A] knows how.
He [E] plays that Chalk Talk bingo every Friday night.
Boy he had to leave Texas [G] but he don't [A] say why.
He [E] owns a quarter section of a lake.
He's a young fella caught a great big old blue cat [G] on a [A] bridge.
And juggling [E] sills is hardwood timber through the chipping [Em] mill.
[E] What's that crystal meth [G] cause to shine?
[A] Don't sell it.
[E] What's that crystal meth cause to shine?
Don't sell it.
You know it.
He likes that money and he [G] don't mind [A] the smell.
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_ [A] _ _ [E] My cousin Roscoe, Slate's oldest boy from second marriage [G] up in [A] Illinois.
[E] Raised in East St.
Louis by his mama's people.
They do things different [G] but he'll just [A] come on down.
He's [E] going to Dallas, Texas in a semi truck.
Crawled from that big McDonald's you [G] know.
The [A] one that's built [E] on that great big old bridge across the.
Well Rogers turned back to the big cabin exit [G] stop.
And bought a [A] part in the cigarettes [E] at that Indian smoke shop.
With the big neon smoke rings and Cherokee Nation.
[D] It must go getter [A] it that night somebody [E] ran into the stop light.
At the Shawnee Bypass.
Roscoe tried to miss him [G] but he [A] didn't quite.
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_ [A] _ _ [E] _ Bob and me come up from some little town way down by Lake Texoma.
[G] Where he [A] coaches football.
[E] And they were two champions now for two years running.
But he says they won't be this year.
[G] No they [A] won't be this year.
[E] And he stopped off in Tusca at that pop knife and gun place.
Bought a SKS rifle [G] and a couple [A] of full cases [E] of that steel core ammo. _
Burden primers from some East Block nation [G] that no [A] longer needs them.
[E] And a Desert Eagle that's one great big old pistol.
I mean 50 caliber [G] made by that [A] ass Hebrew.
[E] _ Circus traces for that old BAR of Satan's.
Soon as it gets dark we're [G] gonna have [A] us a time.
We're [E] gonna have us a time. _
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Rippin' in the wind coming down from Baxter Springs.
That's one hill raised from town way [G] up in [A] Southeastern Kansas.
[E] Got a bar next to the laundry store.
That's got the Rolling Stones lips up [G] there and [A] bright big neon.
[E] And they're right downtown where everyone can see them.
And they burn all night.
[G] Oh they burn [A] all night.
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They burn all night. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [A] _ [E] _ Ruthann and Linvay were them.
Cut off britches and skinny little haunters [G] and their second [A] cousins too.
[E] And man I don't care I want to get between them with a great big old heart.
I'm [G] like an old [A] bull.
Rockfest poetry good.
[E] Hang a five rail gate from Doosan.
Sister twist and tell the cows come home.
You [G] know we'll [A] have us a time.
We're [E] gonna have us a time.
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_ _ [A] _ [E] _ Uncle Slater's got us Texan pride.
Back in the thickets [G] with his Asian [A] bride.
He cut [E] that corner pasture into acre lots.
He sells them all their finance.
[G] Strictly to [A] them that's got [E] no kind of credit.
Because he knows their slappers and they'll miss that payment.
[G] And he takes it [A] back and plays [E] that Choctaw bingo every Friday night.
He drinks his Johnny Walker at [G] that Club [A] 69.
We're gonna [E] strap them kids in.
Give them a little bit of Benadryl in a chair.
We're [G] gonna have [A] _ _ [E] us a time.
_ _ Gonna have us a time.
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