Choctaw Bingo Chords by The Heartless Bastards, James Mcmurtry

[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] All [E] right, we'll _ _ _ _ start this next set with a song [N] about the North Texas, Southern Oklahoma
crystal meth amphetamine industry.
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Strap them kids and give them a little bit of vodka and cherry coke.
We're going [D] to [A] Oklahoma [E]
to the family [Em] reunion for the first time in years.
_ [E] It's Uncle Slayton's [D] cousin.
He's getting [A] on in [E] years.
You know he no longer travels, but he's still pretty spry.
There's not much on talk and he's [D] just too [A] mean to die.
[E] And they'll be coming down from Kansas and from West Arkansas.
It'll be one great big old party [D] like you never [E] saw.
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_ _ Uncle Slayton's got his Texan pride.
Back in the thickets [G] with [D] his [A] Asian [E] bride.
He's got a hair string trailer and a Holstein cow.
_ Still makes whiskey [G] because he still [A] knows how.
He [E] plays that Choctaw bingo every Friday night.
You know he had to leave Texas, but [D] he won't [A] say [E] why.
On the quarter section at Lake Utah, I caught a great big old blue cat [D] on a trip.
[A] Didn't chug my [E] cells, his hardwood [Em] timber to the chipping mill.
Cooks that crystal meth because the [A] shine don't sell.
He [E] cooks that crystal meth because the shine don't sell.
You know he likes that money.
He don't [D]
[E] mind the smell.
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[A] _ _ [G] My [E] cousin Roscoe Slayton's oldest boy from his second marriage [D] up in [E] Illinois.
[Em] Raised in East St.
Louis by his mama's people.
Where they do things different.
Thought [A] he'd just come on down.
He's [E] gone to Dallas, Texas in [Gm] a [Em] semi [Bm] truck called from that [Em] big McDonald's.
You know the [A] one that's [E] built up on that great big old ridge across Will Rogers Turnpike.
Took a [Em] big cab and exit stopped [D] him.
Bought [A] a carton of cigarettes [E] at that Indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings.
And the [G] Cherokee Nation hit the skuggie [A] late that night.
Somebody [E] ran the stoplight at the [A] Shawnee [E] bypass.
Roscoe tried to miss him [D] but he [A] didn't quite.
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[C#m] _ [Em] _ _ Bob and [E] May come up from some little town way down by Lake Texoma [G] where he [A] coaches football.
[E] They were two-way champions now but two years of running.
But he says it won't be this year.
[D] No, it [A] won't be this [E] year.
And he stopped off in Tushka at that [Em] pop knife and gun place.
Bought an SKS rifle and a [A] couple full cases [Em] of that [E] steel core ammo with it.
Bare down primers on [G] some East Black Nation that no longer [A] needs [Em] a man.
Desert Eagle, that's one great big [E] old pistol.
I mean 50 caliber [G] made by [A] badass Hebrews.
[E] And some [Em] surplus tracers with that old BAR of slaves.
Soon as it gets dark we're gonna [A] have us a time.
[Em] We're gonna have us a time. _ _
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_ [E] _ _ [Em] Ruthann and Lynn come down from Baxter Springs and that's one hell-raising town [G] way up in [A] southeastern Kansas.
It's [Em] got a biker bar next to the lingerie store.
It's got the Rolling Stones' lips up there and [E] bright pink neon.
And [Em] they're right downtown where everyone can [E] see them.
And they burn all night, you [A] know they burn all night, you [Em] know they burn all night. _ _
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_ [E] _ _ Ruthann and Lynn, they wear them [Em] cut-off britches and them skinny little halters [G] and their [A] second
cousins [E] to me.
Man I don't care I want to get between them with a [G] great big old hard-on like an old [A] bulldog fence post.
[Em] You can hang a [E] pipe rail gate from Deuce's sister's whistler [G] till the [A] cows come home
and [E] we'll be having us a time.
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] Uncle Slade he's got [G] his [D] Texan pride.
[Em] _ Back in the [D] thickets with his [A] Asian bride.
He's [Em] got that corner pasture and the acre lots he sells them owner financed.
Stripling them, it's got no kind of credit cause it knows their slackers and they'll
miss that [D] payment.
Then he takes it [Am] back.
He [Em] plays that Choctaw bingo every Friday night.
Drinks his Johnny [D] Walker at that Club [A] 69.
[E] We're gonna strap them [A] kids and give [Em] them a little bit of [E] Benadryl and cherry coke.
We're [D] gonna, [A] Oklahoma, [Em] gonna have us a time.
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