"Choctaw Bingo", James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards, September 2009
Strap them kids in because
James McMurtry & the
Heartless Bastards are rocking beautiful downtown
Sellersville, PA. "He's just too mean to die
..."
Strap them kids in
Give 'em a little bit of vodka in a cherry coke
We're going to
Oklahoma to the family reunion for the first time in years
It's up at uncle Slayton's cause he's getting on in years
You know he no longer travels but he's still pretty spry
He's not much on talking and he's just too mean to die
And they'll be comin' down from
Kansas
and from west
Arkansas
It'll be one great big old party like you never saw
Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride
Back in the thickets with his
Asian bride
He's got a
Airstream trailer and a
Holstein cow
He still makes whiskey 'cause he still knows how
He plays that
Choctaw 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 ol' blue cat on a driftin' jug line
Sells his hardwood timber to the shipping mill
Cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell
He cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell
You know he likes his money he don't mind the smell
My cousin
Roscoe Slayton's oldest boy from his second marriage up in
Illinois
He was raised in
East St. Louis by his momma's people
Where they do things different
Thought he'd just come on down
He was going to
Dallas Texas in a semi truck called from that big McDonald's
You know the one they built up on that great big ol' bridge
Across the
Will Rogers Turnpike
Took the
Big Cabin exit stopped and bought a couple of cartons of cigarettes
At that
Indian Smoke Shop with the big neon smoke rings
In the
Cherokee Nation hit Muskogee late that night
Somebody ran a stoplight at the
Shawnee Bypass
Roscoe tried to miss 'em but he didn't quiteBob and Mae come up from little town
Way down by lake
Texoma where he coaches football
They were two A champions now for two years running
But he says they won't be this year no they won't be this year
And he stopped off in
Tushka at that "
Pop's
Knife and Gun" place
Bought a
SKS rifle and a couple a 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 that's one great big ol' pistol
I mean
.50 caliber made by badass
Hebrews
And some surplus tracers for that old
BAR of Slayton's
Soon as it gets dark we're gonna have us a time
We're gonna have us a timeRuth Ann and
Lynn come down from
Baxter Springs
That's one hell raisin' town way up in
Southeastern Kansas
Got a biker bar next to the lingerie store
That's got them
Rolling Stones lips up there in bright pink neon
And they're right down town 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 gait from
Do some twisted sisters 'til the cows come home
And we'd be havin' us a time
Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride
Back in the thickets with his Asian bride
He's cut that corner pasture into acre lots`
He sells 'em owner financed
Strictly to them that's got no kind of credit 'Cause he knows they're slackers
When they miss that payment
Then he takes it back
He plays that
Choctaw Bingo every Friday night
Drinks that
Johnny Walker at that
Club 69
We're gonna strap them kids in give 'em a little bit o' Benadryl
And a cherry coke we're goin' to Oklahoma
Gonna have us a time