Chords for James McMurtry "Choctaw Bingo"

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_ [A] _ [Em] _ _ [E] Strap them kids in, give them a little bit of vodka and a cherry Coke.
We're [G] going to [A] Oklahoma [E] to the Union Park.
First time in years, it's up at Uncle [G] Slayton's, cause he's getting [A] on in years, you [E] know.
He no longer travels, but he's still pretty spry.
There's not [G] much on talk and he's just too [A] mean to die.
And they'll be [E] coming down from Kansas and from West Arkansas.
It'll be one great big old party like [G] you never [A] saw.
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Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride. _
Back in the thickets [G] with his Asian [A] bride.
He's got [E] an Airstream trailer and a Holstein cow. _
Still makes whiskey cause [G] he still [A] knows how.
He plays [E] that Choctaw bingo every Friday night, you know.
He had to leave [G] Texas, but [D] he won't [A] say why.
[E] He owns a quarter sectioned by Lake Eupolico.
And a great big old blue [G] cat on a [A] driftin' jug line.
Sells [E] his hardwood timber to the shipping mill. _
Crystal meth [G] because Shine [A] don't sell.
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Crystal meth because Shine don't sell, you know.
Likes that money, [G] he don't mind the [A] smell. _ _
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_ _ _ [A] _ [E] _ _ My cousin Roscoe, Slayton's oldest [Am] boy from [E] his second [G] marriage up in [A] Illinois.
He's raised [E] in East St.
Louis by his mama's people.
Where they [G] do things different, though.
He just [A] come on down.
[E] He's going to Dallas, Texas in a semi truck called Chrome.
That big [G] McDonald's you know [A] the one that's built [E] up on.
That great big old bridge across the Will Rogers Turnpike.
Took the big cabin exit [G] stop.
Bought a carton of [A] cigarettes [E] at that Indian smoke shop.
The big neon smoke rings in the Cherokee Nation.
Hit my smokey late that night.
Somebody ran the stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass.
Roscoe tried to miss him, but he [G] [A] didn't quite. _ _ _
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[E] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [E] Bob and May come up from some little town way down by Lake Texoma.
[G] Where he coaches [A] football.
[E] They're two A champions now.
They're two years running, but he says they won't be this year.
No, they won't [A] be this year.
[E] Stopped off at Tushka at that pop knife and gun place.
Bought an SKS rifle and [G] a couple [A] little cases of [E] that Steel Corps ammo.
With the virgin primers from some East Black nation [A] that no longer needs them.
[E] _ Desert Eagle, that's one great big old pistol.
I hate it.
.50
caliber [G] made by [A] bad ass Hebrews.
[E] _ Surplus tracers for that old BAR slate.
Soon as it gets dark we're [G] going to have [A] us a time.
[E] We're going to have us a time.
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_ _ _ [A] _ _ [E] Ruth and Lynn come down from Baxter Springs.
And that's one hell raising town way [G] up in [A] Southeastern Kansas.
It's [E] got a biker bar next to a laundry store.
It's got Rolling Stones lips up [A] there and bright pink neon in [E] there.
Right downtown where everyone can see them.
They burn all night, [G] you know.
They [A] burn all night, you know.
[E] They burn all night.
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_ _ _ _ [Em] _ guess you're mostly Baptists out there, huh?
[E] _ _ _ _ Got a few Methodists in the back dancing.
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We _ need the Methodists down front on this one here, actually.
_ _ _ _ _ Because this song goes out to the first United Crystal Methodist around Oklahoma. _ _
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And we're just now getting to the good part. _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ And the good part's better if you're moving when it happens.
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_ Ruth and Lynn, they wear the cutoff britches and the skinny little halters
[G] and they're [A] like cousins [E] to me.
Man, I don't care.
I want to get between them with a great big old heart on [G] like an [A] old Bodoak Finsbow.
[E] She could hang a pipe real gay from these sister twisters [G] till the [A] cows come home and
we'll be [E] having us a time, _ _ _ having us a time.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride back in the thickets [G] with his [A] Asian bride.
He's [E] cut that corner pasture into acre lots.
He sells them owner finance strictly [A] to them.
It's [E] got no kind of credit because he knows they're slackers and they'll miss that payment.
Then he takes [C#m] it [E] back.
He plays that Choctaw bingo every Friday night.
He drinks with Johnny [G]
Walker at Club [A] 69.
[E] We're going to strap them kids in, get them a little bit of Benadryl and a cherry Coke.
[G] We're going to [A] Oklahoma, going [E] to have us a time, _ _ [A] _ [E] _ have us a time.
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_ [Em] Thank you.
_ _ Thanks, Jesse. _