“Choctaw Bingo”, James McMurtry & the Heartless Bastards, September 2009
“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 …
Matthew Mitcham battled an addiction to crystal meth
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Olympic gold medal winner Matthew Mitcham reveals in a new book out Monday that he suffered an addiction to crystal meth in 2011 that almost derailed his career. photo. "I certainly was addicted to crystal meth… I just felt like such a massive sham …
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Olympic gold medal diver admits crystal meth addiction
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Olympic gold medal winning diver Matthew Mitcham has admitted battling a secret crystal meth addiction in 2011 while training for the London Games. The 24-year-old Brisbane athlete won gold with the greatest single platform dive in Olympic history at …
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