Chords for James McMurtry "Choctaw Bingo" Live on Stay Tuned Radio

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Strap them kids in, give them a little bit of vodka and a cherry coke.
We're [G] going to [A] [E] Oklahoma to the family reunion for the first time in years.
It's up at Uncle Slayton's [A] cause he's getting on in [E] years.
You know he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry.
He's not much on talk and [G] he's just too mean to [E] die.
He's got a big old bag and he'll be coming down from Kansas and from West Arkansas.
It'll be one great big old [A] party like you never saw.
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_ [E] _ Uncle Slayton's got his [A] Texan bride [E] back in [A] the thickets with [G] his [A] Asian bride.
He's got [E] an Airstream trailer and a [A]
Holstein cow.
[E] Still makes [G] whiskey cause he still [A] knows how.
He [E] plays that Choctaw bingo every Friday night.
You know he had to leave Texas [A] but he won't say why.
[E] He owns a quarter section of Lake Eufaula.
Caught a great big old blue [A] cat on a drifting jug line.
[E] Sells his hardwood timber to the shipping [A] mill.
[E] Cooks that crystal [G] meth because the shine [A] don't sell you.
[E] Cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell you.
You know he likes that money he [G]
don't [A] mind the smell.
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_ [F#m] _ _ [E] My cousin Roscoe was [A] Slayton's oldest boy [E] from his second [A] marriage up in Illinois.
He was raised [E] in East St.
Louis by his [A] mama's people [E] where they do things [A] different.
They thought he'd just come on down.
[E] He's going to Dallas, Texas in a semi [A] truck [E] called from that big [A] McDonald's.
You know the one that's built up on [E] that great big old bridge across the Will Rogers Turnpike.
Took the big cabin exit, [A] stopped and bought a carton of cigarettes at [E] that Indian smoke shop
with big neon smoke rings.
And the Cherokee Nation hit [Em] Muskogee [A] late that [E] night.
Somebody ran the stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass.
Roscoe tried to [G] miss them but he [A] didn't quite.
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_ _ [E] Bob and May come up from some little town way down by Lake Texoma [G] where he [A] coaches football.
They [E] were two-eight champions now for two years running.
But he says they won't be this [C] year.
No, they [A] won't be this year.
And he [E] stopped off in Tushka at that Pop Knife and Gun place.
Bought a SKS rifle [G] and a [A] couple full cases of that [E] Steel Corps ammo
with the birds and farmers from some East Block [A] nation that no [E] longer needs them.
And a Desert Eagle, that's the one great big old pistol, I mean 50 [A] caliber made by bad-ass Hebrews
[E] and some surplus traces for that old BAR slate.
And as soon as it gets dark we're [A] gonna have us a time.
We're [E] gonna have us a time.
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_ [Em] _ [E] Ruth Van and Lynn come down from Baxter Springs.
And that's one hell-raising [G] town way up in [A]
southeastern [E] Kansas.
Got a biker bar next to the lingerie store.
That's got the Rolling Stones [G] lips up there and bright [A] pink neon.
[E] And they're right downtown where everyone can see them.
And they burn all night, you [A] know they burn all night, you [E] know they burn all night. _ _
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_ _ Ruth Van and Lynn, they wear them cut-off breeches and their skinny little halters
[G] and their [A] second cousins [E] to me.
Man, I don't care, I wanna get between them with a great big old heart [A] on like an old boat art fist.
Oh, she could [E] hang a pipe rail gate from these sister twisters
[A] till the cows come home and we'll [E] be having us a time.
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Having us a time.
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Uncle Slayton's got his [A] Texan bride _ [E]
back in the thickets [A] with his Asian bride.
He's cut [E] that corn and pasture into acre lots.
He sells them owner [A] finance strictly to them.
[E] He's got no kind of credit because he knows they're slackers and they'll miss that payment.
[A] Then he takes it back, he plays [E] that Choctaw bingo every Friday [A] night.
He drinks [E] his Johnny Walker [A] at Club 69.
We're gonna [E]
strap them kids in, give them a little [A] bit of Benadryl [E] and a sherry [A] Coke.
We're gonna, Oklahoma, [E] gonna have us a time.
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Have us a time.
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