{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1139884,"song":"Choctaw Bingo","artist":"James McMurtry","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11253497-choctaw-bingo-chords-by-james-mcmurtry/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1139884?type=chord","rating":4.84101,"votes":143,"content":"[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nStrap them kids in, give 'em a lil bit of vodka[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn a cherry coke, we're goin' to Oklahoma[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nTo the family reunion for the first time in years[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt's up at Uncle Slaton's 'cause he's getting on in years[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou know he longer travels but he's still pretty spry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                       [ch]G[/ch]    [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe's not much on talk and he's just too mean to die[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd they'll be coming down and from Kansas and west Arkansas[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                            [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIt'll be one big old party like you've never saw[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nUncle Slaton's got his Texan pride[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBack in the thickets with his Asian bride[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe's got an Airstream trailer and a Holstein cow[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nStill makes whiskey cause he still knows how[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe plays that Choctaw Bingo every Friday night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou know he had to leave Texas but he won't say why[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe owns a quarter section up by Lake Eufala[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCaught a great big ole bluecat on a drifting jug line[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSells his hardwood timber to the chipping mill[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCooks that crystal meth because his 'shine don't sell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe cooks that crystal meth because his 'shine don't sell[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nYou know he likes that money, he don't mind the smell[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nMy cousin Roscoe, Slaton's oldest boy[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFrom his second marriage up in Illinois[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe's raised in east St Louis by his mama's people[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWhere they do things different, thought he'd come on down[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe's goin' to Dallas, Texas in a semi truck[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nCalled from that big McDonald's you know that one that's built up on that[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nGreat big old bridge across the Will Rogers Turnpike[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nTook the Big Cabin exit stopped and bought a carton of cigarettes[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAt that Indian smoke shop with the big neon smoke rings[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd the Cherokee nations, hit Muskogee late that night, somebody[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nRan the stoplight at the Shawnee Bypass[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nRoscoe tried to miss him but he didn't quite[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nBob and Mae come up from some little town way down by[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nLake Texoma where he coaches football[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey were two- A champions for two years running[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBut he says they won't be this year, no, they won't be this year[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd he stopped off in Tuscka at that pop knife and gun place[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBought a SKS rifle and a couple full cases of that[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nSteel core ammo with the beardam primers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nFrom some East Bloc nation that no longer needs 'em[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd a Desert Eagle, that's one great big old pistol[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nI mean fifty caliber made by bad-ass Hebrews[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd some surplus tracers for that old BAR of Slaton's[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAs soon as it gets dark, we're gonna have us a time, we're gonna have us a time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nRuth Anne and Lynn come from Baxter Springs[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThat's one hell-raisin' town way up in southeastern Kansas[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nGot a biker bar next to the lingerie store[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nThat's got Rolling Stones lips up there in bright pink neon[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nAnd they're right downtown where everyone can see 'em[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]\r\nand they burn all night, you know they burn all night, you know they burn all night[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[Verse 6]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nRuth Anne and Lynn, they wear them cut-off britches[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd those skinny halters and they're second cousins to me[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nMan I don't care, I want to get between 'em[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWith a great big ole hardon like an old Bois D'arc fence post[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nYou could hang a pipe rail gate from do some[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nSister twisters till the cows come home and we'd be havin' us a time[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n\r\n[Verse 7]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nUncle Slaton's got his Texan pride[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nBack in the thickets with his Asian bride[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe's cut that corner pasture into acre lots[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe sells them owner financed strictly to them[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe's got no kind of credit 'cause he knows they're slackers[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nAnd they'll miss that payment and he'll take it back[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nHe plays that choctaw bingo every Friday night[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nHe drinks his Johnny Walker at that Club 69[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nWere gonna strap those kids in, give 'em a lil bit of Benadryl[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nIn a Cherry Coke, we're going to Oklahoma[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]\r\nGonna have us a time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                               [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]A[/ch]\r\nWe're gonna have us a time[/tab]","plain_text":"[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\n[Verse 6]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\n\n[Verse 7]","chords":["E","G","A","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}