Choctaw Bingo by James McMurtry

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  • @denisethetford9178
    @denisethetford9178 Рік тому +145

    The longest & best run-on sentence in music. Period.

    • @rickreese5794
      @rickreese5794 11 місяців тому +4

      💯🤙🏻😎
      North Rocky Mountains
      UssA

  • @theparalexview785
    @theparalexview785 5 років тому +485

    McMurtry's got a helluva damn nerve, singing about my family that way.

    • @ronniecariker9343
      @ronniecariker9343 3 роки тому +29

      Mine too, that’s my kinfolk he’s talking about. I live on Lake Texoma and I have a teenage niece whose name was recently painted on the Denison water tower. 😆

    • @derekfuller8103
      @derekfuller8103 3 роки тому +5

      Your family? You mean mine!

    • @huntermctree69
      @huntermctree69 3 роки тому +5

      I’m related to him

    • @timothyshearer8389
      @timothyshearer8389 3 роки тому +4

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @rogermerrill9840
      @rogermerrill9840 3 роки тому +1

      @@sonder6434 so

  • @rev.jimmywonko9615
    @rev.jimmywonko9615 Рік тому +146

    There's not much on youtube that can hold my attention for close to 9 minutes but I listen to this alot. Every line is gold and you absolutely can not be in a bad mood with this on.

    • @tomarmstrong9452
      @tomarmstrong9452 Рік тому +3

      Same here, listen to it quite a bit!

    • @Patti-Rene
      @Patti-Rene Рік тому +2

      Especially, while you're playing it and listening to it at the same time! Amen!

    • @adamasrain6469
      @adamasrain6469 Рік тому

      maybe? : ua-cam.com/video/s_nc1IVoMxc/v-deo.html

    • @knoxwhs
      @knoxwhs Рік тому +1

      Same

    • @Treefort1
      @Treefort1 9 місяців тому +1

      Many mornings, to get started, we rev up the job site with this. It sort of sets a mood….

  • @ericmccafferty9073
    @ericmccafferty9073 Рік тому +25

    Americana...I now live amongst these people...one of the best songs ever written

  • @natenichols9737
    @natenichols9737 Рік тому +53

    I can't think of a better example of a song that captures American culture.

    • @lanestovall1715
      @lanestovall1715 8 місяців тому +3

      First point, he mentions catching a blue cat on a drifting jug line, then mentions his cousin who coached a AA football team they were 2 time champions but they won't be this year. And he bought a .50 caliber"That's one big ol' pistol made by some badass Hebrews "
      If that's not America in a nutshell, I don't know what is!!

  • @roscoschmosco5524
    @roscoschmosco5524 4 роки тому +550

    This should be our national anthem

    • @vtwinbuilder3129
      @vtwinbuilder3129 3 роки тому +33

      If you’re from this part of the country it might as well be...

    • @mchammer1248
      @mchammer1248 3 роки тому +8

      Yeah yeah yeah

    • @thejmz
      @thejmz 3 роки тому +13

      Haha, it kinda is - at least for me.

    • @AUNTIE-DEE
      @AUNTIE-DEE 3 роки тому +20

      The rest of the country wouldn't get it.

    • @brenlh6484
      @brenlh6484 3 роки тому +12

      Only if yer from OK

  • @cameronburns9819
    @cameronburns9819 4 роки тому +153

    I’ve been hooked on this song since I heard it. Each time I hear it I appreciate it that much more

    • @rogwheel
      @rogwheel 2 роки тому +1

      Same here!

    • @robertcoslet2921
      @robertcoslet2921 2 роки тому +2

      This is basically the entire southern Midwest. This was the fringes of society in the 90's

    • @ph00xy
      @ph00xy Рік тому

      Someone uploaded this song to the internet and shared it on a UseNet group long before UA-cam was a thing. I enjoyed it as a fun novelty song and forgot all about it. Years later James was featured on World Cafe, played this song and I was hooked!

    • @FasterthanSpeed414
      @FasterthanSpeed414 2 місяці тому

      i hear more lyrics and more jokes err time

  • @kimharris8903
    @kimharris8903 Рік тому +34

    OMG, this IS Oklahoma! The highlight of going with my grandparents to see family in Arkansas and Missouri was getting to stop at the McDs and walk the tunnel across the turnpike! Back in the days when I rode in the back window of the Olds 88 or sat between my Papa's feet while he was driving. Hell, my Papa had me driving that 88 up and down the turnpike by the time I was 10. Eufaula, yep, me too. Friends in Choctaw, yep. Oklahoma anthem for sure!

  • @dustdevl3404
    @dustdevl3404 3 роки тому +144

    Roscoe tried to miss 'em, but he didn't quite. That and the badass Hebrews line never fail to crack me up.

    • @zsedcftglkjh
      @zsedcftglkjh 2 роки тому +2

      There's an old indian term for him. It's called "wannabe."

    • @joannehack7588
      @joannehack7588 2 роки тому +3

      I adore James’ music, but I listen to the whole package- I never focus on particular lyrics, and when a fan focuses on a particular possibly offensive issue in his comments it annoys me, because it propitiates negativity and I don’t believe that was the intention of the song

    • @thewobblywelder8362
      @thewobblywelder8362 2 роки тому +7

      So many story lines that don’t go anywhere. Just awesome observations lol. I love this song. There could be fifty songs wrote off of every situation put forth here lol. I think that’s why I love it so much

    • @brenlh6484
      @brenlh6484 2 роки тому +7

      I like "with a great big hard-on like a bodark fence post you can hang a five rail gate from".

    • @jugo1944
      @jugo1944 Рік тому +5

      The details about the SKS and the cheap steel eastern European ammo is delicious as well

  • @wdm5000
    @wdm5000 2 роки тому +27

    Gets better every time you hear it. I have listened to this song probably 325 times.

  • @wycient3753
    @wycient3753 2 роки тому +60

    If this isn't an actual account of a family reunion, then this man needs to write movies for Hollywood, cuz those folks are out of ideas. #classic

    • @grmpEqweer
      @grmpEqweer Рік тому +3

      We've all got folks like this. Or close.

    • @timothywelch4949
      @timothywelch4949 Рік тому +3

      He could write him a badass Cohen Bros. Movie for sure😀

    • @raff1ut
      @raff1ut Рік тому +2

      Should be the national anthem

    • @SPGhettus
      @SPGhettus Рік тому +5

      Well, his father wrote Lonesome Dove and Terms of Endearment, so it would make sense. And this song? It's so country it literally needs translation for an urban dweller to follow. One does not learn about drifting jug lines or Bodock fence posts in the big city.

    • @RicoVonSpaceWolf
      @RicoVonSpaceWolf Рік тому +1

      His daddy wrote some pretty famous books that were made into movies….. it’s clear writing’s in the blood with this father and son.

  • @timothywelch4949
    @timothywelch4949 2 роки тому +10

    When ever I go to Oklahoma , I always play this song!!! Because it makes oklahoma kinda fun......for minute.....😄😄👍🏻

  • @danwilliams9606
    @danwilliams9606 3 роки тому +25

    As America descends into the pit this song just keeps getting better and better. James, you are truly a genius.

  • @robertfox977
    @robertfox977 5 років тому +58

    Dad's a great writer of novels. Sons a wordsmith also but puts music to it. What a gifted family.

    • @colinsacks8200
      @colinsacks8200 3 роки тому +10

      Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite novels. Choctaw Bingo is one of my favorite songs.

    • @masyelraf
      @masyelraf 2 роки тому +4

      I live in Maine and we have Stephen King who is buddies with Larry McMurtry. Stephen owns several radio stations here and he is a big fan of James's music. They play alot of it and we wish everyone could hear this.

    • @ph00xy
      @ph00xy Рік тому +1

      @@masyelraf We all support the team!

    • @peterfeistamel7081
      @peterfeistamel7081 Рік тому +1

      Walk between the raindrops

    • @denisethetford9178
      @denisethetford9178 Рік тому +2

      I LOVE LARRY!! "The Last Picture Show" & "Texasville" are my favorites. But I had no idea he was James dad. Certainly talent in their genes.

  • @Ace_Hunter_lives
    @Ace_Hunter_lives 2 роки тому +71

    One of the great things about this version is that you get to hear McMurtry tear into the guitar. Although primarily known as a songwriter for a couple of decades now, my understanding is that in his early days he was primarily viewed as a touring guitarist, which is to say, dude's actually got some serious guitar chops.

    • @IanSinclair11021949
      @IanSinclair11021949 Рік тому +4

      He's reworked Chuck Berry's "You can't catch me" in a masterful fashion and made it his own.

    • @JamesGreen-bo5xp
      @JamesGreen-bo5xp Рік тому +2

      He's phenomenall !

    • @mikemodlin
      @mikemodlin Рік тому +2

      @@IanSinclair11021949I had to hear it, but you’re 100% right! Nailed it.

    • @KateConnolly-i7y
      @KateConnolly-i7y 11 місяців тому +1

      Me too. This came 2 me on a long bus ride

    • @aaronlalli3730
      @aaronlalli3730 6 місяців тому

      I love his playing on this.

  • @jaskew1848
    @jaskew1848 3 місяці тому +3

    I actually worked at the smoke shop pictured in the thumbnail had a casino room off to the side. In the late 90s. We broke up fights, got flashed in the drive through, sold crack pipes traded for gold, had a off the chain casino room. Long live north sheridan in tulsa oklahoma. Not for the faint of heart but a hell of a time to be strung out

  • @btmiller100
    @btmiller100 6 років тому +391

    James McMurtry's lighthearted tune about crystal meth, incest and good old fashioned family reunions. Great song!

  • @timford3599
    @timford3599 Рік тому +17

    Thanks for posting this version of one of my favorite songs. This live recording by J.M. and this band is the best. The real capper is the montage of photo's to match the lyrics as this gem of a story/song rolls along. It's so good that I played it twice in a row! Nice work, Clay!

  • @TruittRaun
    @TruittRaun Рік тому +6

    This needs to be a Guy Ritchie movie, something like Snatch.

  • @mikegoodwin1203
    @mikegoodwin1203 7 років тому +190

    is it wrong that I know every place he's singing about. Lol. South East Oklahoma born and raised

    • @jackandaustinsdad
      @jackandaustinsdad 6 років тому +6

      what about that Mc Donald's?

    • @bigburrearp7609
      @bigburrearp7609 6 років тому +5

      Lived there for 14 years. Grew up in Durant before there was Choctaw bingo. Can't believe how much it's changed.

    • @ronaldnanni298
      @ronaldnanni298 6 років тому +1

      I think it's KOOL!!!

    • @ensinitas
      @ensinitas 5 років тому +3

      nothin' wrong with that at all...we all got our places and it was real neighborly of larry to sing about yers! i think i'll have to find my way through to have a look

    • @gregladuca5090
      @gregladuca5090 5 років тому

      @@ensinitas true dat

  • @sugarmagnolia538
    @sugarmagnolia538 8 років тому +344

    Somebody needs to make a movie based on this song ;)

    • @tireballastserviceofflorid7771
      @tireballastserviceofflorid7771 8 років тому +25

      They made a TV show. Justified.... lol

    • @bradleyyelland9953
      @bradleyyelland9953 6 років тому +17

      It's called beer for my horses

    • @terrimclafferty3135
      @terrimclafferty3135 6 років тому +3

      Moonshiners reunion

    • @philipsadler4220
      @philipsadler4220 6 років тому +20

      I made the movie, I just forgot to put film in the damn camera. Most people from North Texas lived this stuff in the 80s.

    • @walterdavis4808
      @walterdavis4808 6 років тому +4

      As long as it has a political slant i guess a lrodution company would pick it up. If just entertaining , forget it

  • @Skycladatdusk78
    @Skycladatdusk78 2 роки тому +175

    Came for uncle Slayton's whiskey, stayed for Ruth Ann and Lynn.

    • @7mm08man
      @7mm08man 2 роки тому +17

      And them surplus tracers for that ol’BAR!!

    • @johnrandall125
      @johnrandall125 Рік тому +4

      ​@@7mm08man Bad ass Hebrews!

    • @boojum402
      @boojum402 Рік тому

      Jesus, I wanna get between em'.

    • @jameshudson3651
      @jameshudson3651 Рік тому +5

      It would be nice to get betwixt them!!

    • @Skycladatdusk78
      @Skycladatdusk78 Рік тому +3

      ​@@jameshudson3651Do some sister twisters til the cows come home.

  • @theChrisCroft
    @theChrisCroft 9 років тому +135

    the true voice of America....

  • @wildbill9168
    @wildbill9168 9 років тому +31

    That's definitely the sound of rock in America thats gone MIA in the last few years. Great song.

  • @debbiechristman2949
    @debbiechristman2949 Місяць тому +1

    I dance on stage while he did this song. I agree... National anthem. Lol❤

  • @jakewaters5563
    @jakewaters5563 2 роки тому +16

    I heard this a few months ago, every morning I wake up with it playing in my head. When I leave for work it’s always the first song to play, just can’t get enough

  • @sunnydaze5721
    @sunnydaze5721 2 місяці тому +1

    Striking resemblance to wht yella wolf will look like In 10 yrs❤
    I’ve loved this song for years!!!

  • @suggy1970
    @suggy1970 9 років тому +463

    I love this song.. bad subject sorta, but I can identify with my dads side of the family. Fam reunions.. and whiskey on the pacifier... old as dirt uncles fighting in the yard over which was worse, the Vietnam war or the Korean war.. and grandma tearing out wires in an uncles harley so he wouldnt drive it drunk. driving with a maniac we called dad with no seatbelts cause cars didnt have them. traveling all over the place sleeping in the back window. Uncle Jimmy with PTSD ( no one knew the name of what vietnam did to him.. he was just nuts but we loved him) and a trashbag full of smoke in his trunk. Lord, memories. Now Im old and would die if my kids acted like we did! HAHA!

    • @nickkyler4923
      @nickkyler4923 9 років тому +28

      suggy1970 This comment is better than the song. Check out Sam Stone by John Prine if you havent yet.

    • @scottallen8607
      @scottallen8607 8 років тому +8

      lmao. no shit Lucky to be alive.

    • @desertbill01
      @desertbill01 7 років тому +10

      I hope my kids, all daughters, kick it in high gear and pass everything I'd done when I was young. I only want them to live through it and realize that being young is for cutting loose.

    • @jonzrx
      @jonzrx 7 років тому +13

      Back when your folks smoked in the car with the windows closed. Yep.

    • @hogleg8103
      @hogleg8103 6 років тому +3

      Memories are golden!! God bless o yea BOOMER SOONER!!!

  • @melissasmith8714
    @melissasmith8714 Рік тому +2

    I am from Oklahoma but live out of state now. This song makes me homesick. LOL

  • @BElla-uf2eo
    @BElla-uf2eo 10 років тому +354

    This is my " ima do dishes " song. I can get the kitchen done & the dishes done faster & my hips are happy wiggling

    • @terrimclafferty3135
      @terrimclafferty3135 7 років тому +7

      ditto..cant help but move when u hear it..always pits me in a good mood when im down lol

    • @christalawson4365
      @christalawson4365 6 років тому +2

      For real!

    • @jamesholleman2083
      @jamesholleman2083 5 років тому +4

      Lol, there's something sexy about that.

    • @scottjohnson9642
      @scottjohnson9642 5 років тому +4

      Next time your sinks full of dirty dishes I'll bring the shine

    • @t900badbot
      @t900badbot 5 років тому +8

      Post a video or it didn't happen.

  • @stecklein7
    @stecklein7 8 років тому +45

    I love this song...Never gets old. Makes me laugh......

  • @Patrioticduder
    @Patrioticduder 5 років тому +18

    From Sherman, TX. This sums up my childhood

  • @richj011
    @richj011 Рік тому +3

    I bought "Too long in the Wasteland" when Mellencamp endorsed him 30 years ago. John wasn't lyin'

  • @massv953
    @massv953 8 років тому +62

    Feel like this song was written about my life. NE Oklahoma 4 life! We are America lol

    • @tireballastserviceofflorid7771
      @tireballastserviceofflorid7771 8 років тому +10

      I tell people this is the anthem to the Midwest.

    • @stecklein7
      @stecklein7 8 років тому +4

      Yes indeed....sadly

    • @JessHart006
      @JessHart006 7 років тому +8

      When people say "flyover country", this is the type of epic shit they're flying over. I say this as a West Coast baby who spent a damn lot of time right between America's tits.

    • @jonzrx
      @jonzrx 7 років тому +3

      I live in DFW but got a little place down in Texoma. Okie and Texas proud. This song is truth.

    • @straggler1009
      @straggler1009 6 років тому +1

      Sand Springs Oklahoma buddy

  • @randyyochum3707
    @randyyochum3707 2 роки тому +5

    Saw him in Nashville last weekend. Wine bar, not sure what they thought of this song.
    I was glad to hear him do this one.
    A fav for sure

  • @malachipeterson1562
    @malachipeterson1562 7 місяців тому +1

    I love this song it's literally describing my entire family and I was born and raised in oklahoma too 😂😂 guess we ain't got much to live up too

    • @Ok20002
      @Ok20002 3 дні тому

      Cousin fuckin too?

  • @drivento
    @drivento 9 років тому +167

    This song is an 8 minute smile.

  • @TheRandyDowning
    @TheRandyDowning 3 місяці тому +1

    James McMurtry is right up there lyrically with Dylan as far as I'm concerned. He writes about my part of America and nails it!

  • @mc98smusicmoviereviews93
    @mc98smusicmoviereviews93 Рік тому +11

    "Breaking Bad" meets "Justified".

  • @toddbeevers6152
    @toddbeevers6152 8 місяців тому +1

    Greatest song I’ve ever heard. Church groove with thoughtful lyrics. Brilliant

  • @KatKrueger
    @KatKrueger 9 років тому +25

    EXCELLENT imagery that makes this song even better. Thank You Clay!

  • @echonautproductions
    @echonautproductions Місяць тому +2

    I liked when it was a Howard Johnson’s over the Will Rogers Turnpike.

  • @davidrochon5873
    @davidrochon5873 4 роки тому +8

    Lol. So many memories. I now live by Toronto but grew up In Tulsa. That smoke shop is the Cherokee Smoke Shop on N. Sheridan

    • @groverw7507
      @groverw7507 4 роки тому

      David Rochon
      Peoria Utica Lewis Harvard Yale SHERIDAN - them streets of Tulsa are memorable .
      I’ve heard the okie state song..

  • @jeffh3328
    @jeffh3328 Рік тому +2

    Great lyrics! Song reminds me of a Chuck Berry tune from 70 years ago, You Can’t Catch Me

    • @charlescoleman6896
      @charlescoleman6896 2 місяці тому

      Chuck Berry couldn’t write anything close to this

  • @t900badbot
    @t900badbot 5 років тому +267

    My wife said "this song is a run on sentence."

  • @charlesseymour1482
    @charlesseymour1482 Рік тому +2

    We use to catch catfish on a floating jug drift line. Collected the catch aboard a drum float pontoon boat.

  • @rolliejohnson1000
    @rolliejohnson1000 Рік тому +3

    I love this version of this song

  • @whatever_it_takes6691
    @whatever_it_takes6691 Місяць тому +1

    Club 69 was an actual bar(it's closed now) right off of highway 69 in Oklahoma. It would have been cool to see a photo of it.

  • @bubbatrismegistus5038
    @bubbatrismegistus5038 5 років тому +159

    Meth, a browning automatic rifle, tracer rounds and pretty girls. Good times

    • @ahumanbeing7554
      @ahumanbeing7554 4 роки тому +6

      Some day I’m gonna have to get myself a FFL and a nice BAR

    • @commontater8630
      @commontater8630 4 роки тому +9

      'Pretty' girls? Yeah right nod nod wink wink

    • @thedude5395
      @thedude5395 4 роки тому

      Sounds like the last time of some peoples lives unless someone that knows what’s up squeezes that bad puppy off

    • @andrewCNC905
      @andrewCNC905 3 роки тому +1

      This Man knows!

    • @justinpeepee8454
      @justinpeepee8454 3 роки тому +2

      Pretty *cousins

  • @phillipnations5482
    @phillipnations5482 6 місяців тому +1

    Its just may be the finest bit of American music ever recorded? Damn Hilliby goat fer

  • @rickstorm719
    @rickstorm719 3 роки тому +3

    Lol! My Choctaw wife's uncle designed the arched restaurant at Vinita OK in the late 1950s when the Will Rogers Turnpike was built! We are from the Joplin MO area and know all of these places well! Baxter Springs! Great stuff!

  • @debbiedunn3779
    @debbiedunn3779 11 місяців тому

    😅🤣😂👍👍👍💃💃💃......Doin' my happy dance .....Thanks . Great FUN . Great day in TBILISI !.......You should come sing over here.......Georgians love all American music !

  • @AdoAdoAdo09
    @AdoAdoAdo09 10 років тому +17

    Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, & tattoo... :-) McMurtry nailed it !!!

  • @Brandon-vs1if
    @Brandon-vs1if 4 роки тому +2

    Could also be about the north Arkansas southern Missouri methamphetamine industry

    • @johnnystafford1826
      @johnnystafford1826 3 роки тому

      OR, Winnipeg Manitoba methamphetamine industry and the zombies it creates.

  • @DTittle
    @DTittle 11 років тому +20

    This song is one of the main reasons I bought the Beer For My Horses soundtrack. Toe tappin' good tune.

  • @giannifriendly5600
    @giannifriendly5600 2 роки тому +1

    Got an Army buddy from Baxter Springs. First time I heard this song way back it brought one hell of a smile to my face. Great song!

  • @timothywelch4949
    @timothywelch4949 4 роки тому +15

    I do like that I've been everywhere he mentions. Lol.

  • @robbiekoon6244
    @robbiekoon6244 7 місяців тому +1

    Ah, ah....those of us from Southeastern Oklahoma understand this stream of consciousness all too well......up and down that 69/75 corridor we go!!!

  • @karylkline6442
    @karylkline6442 6 років тому +3

    I LOVE this song. James McMurtry has SO MANY awesome songs.

  • @Larry-b3j
    @Larry-b3j 8 місяців тому +1

    I thought it is our National anthem great words 😮

  • @allenkennedy6748
    @allenkennedy6748 5 років тому +5

    People always talk about their greatest rock n roll moments. I spent a fair amount of time in N.E. Oklahoma with my wife's family in the 70s,80s,& 90s. Lived in North Texas. Been to Baxter Springs to buy 3.2 beer at Johns Icehouse, driven by MacDonalds at the Big Cabin exit, Driven through the Eufala lake area, went past Choctaw Bingo. I liked James McMurtrys music, then I heard this on the radio before I bought the album. Life suddenly made sense. McIntyre HAD BEEN FOLLOWING ME AROUND! For years. You know the meth problem had been going on, and still does, but I have never heard any lyrics so accurately describe the whole thing of growing up like this. Now I gotta find a therapist to get me past the feeling James may STILL BE FOLLOWING ME AROUND! I admit to going up to the bookstores his father had in a town up towards Wichita Falls. But I am not following James. Life can be so confusing. By the way, saw James McMurtry with Jason Isbell at the Bomb Factory in Dallas 2019. I'm in my 60s, and I'm here to tell you they burned the place to the ground.

    • @benjaminpbarrett7607
      @benjaminpbarrett7607 5 років тому

      @Allen Kennedy i think he could have been following me around back then.... Just Sayin. My best friend lived N. of Blossom. If you know where I'm talkin about then you know.

  • @karendubose3987
    @karendubose3987 11 років тому +23

    Thank you James for bein REAL!!!!!From what my 92 yr old grandpa tells me your daddy was REAL TOO!!!!

    • @bebopalloobop
      @bebopalloobop 4 роки тому

      Read up you’ll be glad you did!!

  • @Desertcat50
    @Desertcat50 11 років тому +6

    Can't get enough of this song! Dang, it's good! The slide show was perfect!

  • @dougiemcclure
    @dougiemcclure 10 років тому +34

    Wow. This was meant for Boomhauer to sing!!

  • @ruseter84
    @ruseter84 Рік тому +5

    I didn’t know how great he is as guitarist. When I saw him live, it was a bass guitar, drums, and him. He could crank some licks on Guild guitars.❤

  • @SingFoolsSing
    @SingFoolsSing Рік тому +3

    Love the line, "Do some sister twisters, til the cows come home"! LOLOLOL

  • @chrisdeal9945
    @chrisdeal9945 9 років тому +4

    Loved his lyrics from day 1 , keep it coming , he's a rare treat in Canada to see live , awesome!! come back to Alberta the south of the north!!!

  • @victoriabrewer5960
    @victoriabrewer5960 2 роки тому +1

    Yes!! Great guitar playin. Nailed all three states and the folks in them in the lyrics and photo slide. Born in Oklahoma raised in North Texas.

  • @JessHart006
    @JessHart006 7 років тому +29

    This is some gangsta shit.

  • @gogan3429
    @gogan3429 4 роки тому +1

    Never heard of James McMurtry before.
    He is great. Thanks 👍

  • @MarioGlebbeek
    @MarioGlebbeek 7 років тому +4

    Great song,video..Love The lyrics and pics are cool:-)

  • @Deltawhiskeymike
    @Deltawhiskeymike Рік тому +1

    As someone who travels from Fort Hood Texas (The "Great" Place) to Fort Leonard Wood Missouri (Fort Lost In The Woods) all of the time, I (LOVE) that McDonald's over around Big Cabin!!!....

  • @bizb8742
    @bizb8742 2 роки тому +3

    A masterwork of wordsmithing. Art, man, art.

  • @WowDoodWuuut
    @WowDoodWuuut 3 роки тому +1

    Leflore County Oklahoma representing!

  • @janettesturma2625
    @janettesturma2625 8 років тому +8

    I never thought anyone else gave the kids benadryl. Saw the McDonalds in Ok. I love this rendition, Hell ya!! Saw him is St Louis Loved him

    • @seththomas2194
      @seththomas2194 8 років тому

      +janette sturma dude i live down here i see all these places all the time its great in OK

  • @davidklauer3422
    @davidklauer3422 2 місяці тому +1

    Alway a favorite

  • @NoMoreRatRaceForMe
    @NoMoreRatRaceForMe 6 років тому +40

    Not quite sure how any living soul could dislike this vid/ song.

    • @karylkline6442
      @karylkline6442 6 років тому +2

      Me too! I don't know how anyone could possibly not want to get up and move to this song!!!

    • @braddavis8655
      @braddavis8655 6 років тому

      One of my favorite Trucking songs

    • @iamtylert
      @iamtylert 6 років тому +2

      People are to soft now and days. It's talking bad about some Okies and thats why.. but I love this shit! I know everywhere he is talking about!😂

    • @KevinSmith-yh6tl
      @KevinSmith-yh6tl 6 років тому +5

      man oh man I know what you're talkin about. I'm 58 years old but all my elders came here from Oklahoma Arkansas Texas and New Mexico where I'm living now used to be one hell of a damn place seems like everybody in this area used to talk with some type of southern accent that's long gone now too many Outsiders moved in fucked it up for the rest of us. Me and all my cousins and relatives and friends we're brought up this way. Good or bad I ain't ashamed of none of it! But that's all changed now the past 20 years sure did screw up my home but I tell you what any kind of people from the outside used to come around in the old days and tried to fuck with us we would tell them and show them what was what!!! This song pretty much tells the way it was when I was growing up and at least till my mid too late 30s. too bad them times had to go away.

    • @stefanschleps8758
      @stefanschleps8758 5 років тому +1

      They ain't American.

  • @jody4876
    @jody4876 4 місяці тому +1

    Ha !! I had 2 serious girlfriends that were Choctaw beautiful ,both of them had x father'n laws that were the Sheriff of McCurtain County Ok,both of them went to FEDERAL PRISON the day they left office !! True life in this song !

  • @alexmccune60
    @alexmccune60 8 місяців тому +2

    youtube is the worst!!! how can you play an add in the middle of this song?

  • @amerocker
    @amerocker 10 років тому +12

    I like this song! I heard it for the first time about a month and a half ago, April 2014, featured in the movie, 'Beer For My Horses'. It rocks!
    Thank you for sharing, clay foster!!!
    : )

  • @bradcorbin3340
    @bradcorbin3340 2 місяці тому +1

    He don't mind the smell because that shine don't feel fuckin awesome

  • @timothywelch4949
    @timothywelch4949 4 роки тому +8

    I Always play this when I go to Oklahoma. Oh , I try not to go up there more than needed. JUSSAYN

  • @Ben-hq3cl
    @Ben-hq3cl Місяць тому +2

    it is your national anthem.

  • @ryanbowers8242
    @ryanbowers8242 4 роки тому +3

    There is a poetic beauty to this song. Love it

  • @stephenwilliams163
    @stephenwilliams163 3 роки тому +2

    Give this one a listen every year when we're rolling out to go work Rocklahoma. Hit a lot of those landmarks on the way. Won't say which ones.

  • @richardg5116
    @richardg5116 5 років тому +28

    Still makes whiskey cuz he still knows how

    • @chef196069
      @chef196069 3 роки тому +2

      He cooks that crystal meth because the 'shine don't sell.

  • @semiretiredtrucker3712
    @semiretiredtrucker3712 Рік тому +1

    I've listened to this many times

  • @paulbeydler7109
    @paulbeydler7109 6 років тому +5

    Stumbled onto to this! Stunned by the fact that I know all these places most of the personalities! Shocked that you all made a great song out of the whole menagerie. Don’t stop now! This is great stuff! Love your style and talent!!!

  • @goombah226
    @goombah226 Місяць тому +1

    Love this shit!

  • @stecklein7
    @stecklein7 8 років тому +3

    Suggy1970 that cracked me UP! I love your post about how this song rings to your family.....We ALL have family like this. It is just soooooo TRUE and REAL. I am still giggling.....You made my day dearest!

  • @waylonreed9194
    @waylonreed9194 4 роки тому +2

    Love county, Oklahoma. All rolled into one great song.

  • @wkmccall
    @wkmccall 11 років тому +5

    This song is supposed to be about Oklahoma, but at around the 1:54 mark when it mentions "Lake Eufaula", that picture is of Lake Eufaula in Alabama - the bridge between Alabama and Georgia, we call it the Causeway. I grew up in Eufaula, AL and in Lake Eufaula.
    Just sayin... :D

    • @geraldbarlow1367
      @geraldbarlow1367 5 років тому

      There is a lake eleufla on ok

    • @colekimbro5731
      @colekimbro5731 5 років тому

      Down yonder bout Thomas Mill 🎩😎

    • @robertjarrett1632
      @robertjarrett1632 5 років тому

      There is a Lake Eufaula in OK, southeast of Henryetta and northeast of McAllester; I know this won't mean much. (My Dad the minister had a revival back there, when I was knee high to a grasshopper).
      This doesn't really matter, but just letting y'all know.

  • @Phish1995
    @Phish1995 4 роки тому +2

    Imma listening to this in 2020. Perhaps, perhaps one of the greatest songs ever written.

  • @danespuranza5199
    @danespuranza5199 10 років тому +59

    Uh, yeah - I want to get between Ruth Ann and Lynne too!!

  • @darkmark-d4f
    @darkmark-d4f Місяць тому +1

    thanks, slower tempo version keeps wanna load. it suxs!

  • @downsouthdharma6385
    @downsouthdharma6385 7 місяців тому +5

    I got an ad in middle of song…..

  • @brianwillis7608
    @brianwillis7608 2 роки тому

    Love it!!!!! Love South Dakota, too!!!! Must’ve been here... got a snow shovel w ur name on it...😂😂😂😂😂 the cold has come quick and there’s cows still out....

  • @dozeregg
    @dozeregg 7 років тому +13

    Basically what goes through my head every time it comes up on my playlist. Feels like a song about my family, and where I grew up.

  • @ricardotabares710
    @ricardotabares710 3 роки тому

    It remains me of a couple from Columbia GA exactly like this song!

  • @michaelmiller9870
    @michaelmiller9870 6 років тому +5

    Holy smokes, how is this song not a top 100, pretty damn good!

    • @markschnabel1353
      @markschnabel1353 3 роки тому +1

      Because for a song to get the airplay to chart, it needs to run about 3:30 in length. The had to chop the Beatles Hey Jude nearly in half to get radio play.