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. 😆
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.
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!!
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!
Someone uploaded this song to the internet and shared it on a UseNet group long before TH-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!
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
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 plats 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 quite Bob 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 bad ass 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 time Ruth 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 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 'cCause 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
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!
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.
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
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
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.
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.
@ You sound just like a Racist Democrat. By the way, I'm not the same color they are.I only said the how beautiful they were. You sound like one very very ugly person. I bet there's a lot of broken mirrors in your house, As You don't like your reflexion
@@videodudeX Its actually Bois d' arc fence post (pronounced bordarch in Texas) also known as the osage orange. Super hard wood that makes fence posts that last forever.
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.
@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.
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!!! : )
"He likes that money, he don't mind the smell...." Wow...that's the realest line in the whole song. Grew up on Southeast Oklahoma/Northeast Texas state line, and it's like people cook the shit for sport here. Got a casino to play bingo in every Friday night too.
Just down the road from you. I'm from the thriving metropolis of DeKalb. Avert, Texas it was once the Tomatoe Captal of the world. They had this giant tomatoe ontop of a big sign as you enter Avery City Limits that said welcome to Avery Texas the tomatoe captol of the world. Us kids in the 60's and early seventies we use to steal that big tomatoe of th etop of the sign it was quite a honor to do that we have it in the back of a oick-up truck and whenthe weekend was over we would put the tamota out unharmed somewhere in the general area so someone would find it and they would put it back up but the next weekend someone would take the toematto again that went on and off for many years
James was all bummed one night cuz he said he ain't as famous as his Dad. "Man, I don't care." He's the most contemporary poet I know. Rank him with Leonard Cohen in my book. James, you're fantastic!
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
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.
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
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!!!....
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!
This ode to sheer lawlessness makes me feel good all over ... & I liked the reference to 'an old bois d'arc fence post you can hang a pipe-rail gate from' :D ... I'll just stop here, before I wind up on some watch list ...
If you live in any part of the South aside from this little stretch of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas you won’t TOTALLY get it. And no, it’s not sad or unfortunate. There is an air of sadness in some of this, but that is beautiful in its own right. Without it, we wouldn’t be who we are.
oh i don't know...i was in a bar in east st louis in the early 80's with a brand new expensive panama 5" brim i was kinda proud of, & i walked across the empty dance floor towards the men's room, & one of the front men in the band made a remark over the mic about my hat, so i calmly stopped, backed up & asked if he'd been talking to me, & as he bent down from the stage about 4 ft up, i grabbed his shirt collars & faceplanted him, guitar & all...& i am a musician.....-went on to the bathroom......he was white(& black & blue), & i'm white (still have the hat), & i love east st louis. -love this song.
Ya Ryan thanks for clearing that up I knew it wasn't a BAR cause I'm Canadian military background and we had 'em in both WWs, but I did not recognize that thing. Still loved the song, reminds me of a Canadian town called West Gravenhurst.
I think the BAR that he is talking about is the Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2 it shot a 30.06 round. In Saving Private Ryan it’s the gun that is carried by Private Reiben.
+FockeWulf200C that big fifty caliber sniper is actually a ww2 era lotti anti tank rifle in 20mm I believe and the BAR he's more likely talking about is the automatic hunting rifle ed Browning makes and the Bar your thinking of was actually a 30-06
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!
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The longest & best run-on sentence in music. Period.
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North Rocky Mountains
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McMurtry's got a helluva damn nerve, singing about my family that way.
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. 😆
Your family? You mean mine!
I’m related to him
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@@sonder6434 so
This should be our national anthem
If you’re from this part of the country it might as well be...
Yeah yeah yeah
Haha, it kinda is - at least for me.
The rest of the country wouldn't get it.
Only if yer from OK
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.
Same here, listen to it quite a bit!
Especially, while you're playing it and listening to it at the same time! Amen!
maybe? : th-cam.com/video/s_nc1IVoMxc/w-d-xo.html
Same
Many mornings, to get started, we rev up the job site with this. It sort of sets a mood….
I can't think of a better example of a song that captures American culture.
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!!
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!
I’ve been hooked on this song since I heard it. Each time I hear it I appreciate it that much more
Same here!
This is basically the entire southern Midwest. This was the fringes of society in the 90's
Someone uploaded this song to the internet and shared it on a UseNet group long before TH-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!
i hear more lyrics and more jokes err time
Came for uncle Slayton's whiskey, stayed for Ruth Ann and Lynn.
And them surplus tracers for that ol’BAR!!
@@7mm08man Bad ass Hebrews!
Jesus, I wanna get between em'.
It would be nice to get betwixt them!!
@@jameshudson3651Do some sister twisters til the cows come home.
Roscoe tried to miss 'em, but he didn't quite. That and the badass Hebrews line never fail to crack me up.
There's an old indian term for him. It's called "wannabe."
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
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
I like "with a great big hard-on like a bodark fence post you can hang a five rail gate from".
The details about the SKS and the cheap steel eastern European ammo is delicious as well
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
We've all got folks like this. Or close.
He could write him a badass Cohen Bros. Movie for sure😀
Should be the national anthem
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.
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.
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.
He's reworked Chuck Berry's "You can't catch me" in a masterful fashion and made it his own.
He's phenomenall !
Me too. This came 2 me on a long bus ride
I love his playing on this.
As America descends into the pit this song just keeps getting better and better. James, you are truly a genius.
James McMurtry's lighthearted tune about crystal meth, incest and good old fashioned family reunions. Great song!
Yep
Love it
good times! and dammit...fun for the whole family
Best comment I've seen today lol
@@Indiancreekgunsmithing right on.
My wife said "this song is a run on sentence."
It has punctuation!
T900BadBot
It is a speed rap
That's almost a line from the song.
That's what the judge gave him.
LMAO
Americana...I now live amongst these people...one of the best songs ever written
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!
This is my " ima do dishes " song. I can get the kitchen done & the dishes done faster & my hips are happy wiggling
ditto..cant help but move when u hear it..always pits me in a good mood when im down lol
For real!
Lol, there's something sexy about that.
Next time your sinks full of dirty dishes I'll bring the shine
Post a video or it didn't happen.
Dad's a great writer of novels. Sons a wordsmith also but puts music to it. What a gifted family.
Lonesome Dove is one of my favorite novels. Choctaw Bingo is one of my favorite songs.
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.
@@masyelraf We all support the team!
Walk between the raindrops
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.
Meth, a browning automatic rifle, tracer rounds and pretty girls. Good times
Some day I’m gonna have to get myself a FFL and a nice BAR
'Pretty' girls? Yeah right nod nod wink wink
Sounds like the last time of some peoples lives unless someone that knows what’s up squeezes that bad puppy off
This Man knows!
Pretty *cousins
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 plats 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 quite
Bob 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 bad ass 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 time
Ruth 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 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 'cCause 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
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!
suggy1970 This comment is better than the song. Check out Sam Stone by John Prine if you havent yet.
lmao. no shit Lucky to be alive.
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.
Back when your folks smoked in the car with the windows closed. Yep.
Memories are golden!! God bless o yea BOOMER SOONER!!!
Somebody needs to make a movie based on this song ;)
They made a TV show. Justified.... lol
It's called beer for my horses
Moonshiners reunion
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.
As long as it has a political slant i guess a lrodution company would pick it up. If just entertaining , forget it
When ever I go to Oklahoma , I always play this song!!! Because it makes oklahoma kinda fun......for minute.....😄😄👍🏻
This song is an 8 minute smile.
Your comment is a one second smile!
You got that right brother!
nodrip1 you’re breathtaking!
Not when you put it on repeat
That's no lie
This is some gangsta shit.
Gets better every time you hear it. I have listened to this song probably 325 times.
That's so specific and relatable 😂😂
a lil sister twistin'
is it wrong that I know every place he's singing about. Lol. South East Oklahoma born and raised
what about that Mc Donald's?
Lived there for 14 years. Grew up in Durant before there was Choctaw bingo. Can't believe how much it's changed.
I think it's KOOL!!!
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
@@ensinitas true dat
Wow. This was meant for Boomhauer to sing!!
This needs to be a Guy Ritchie movie, something like Snatch.
That's definitely the sound of rock in America thats gone MIA in the last few years. Great song.
Wild Bill
Really? A fucking commercial in the middle of a song, really, really? Fuck TH-cam!!!!!
the true voice of America....
Agree 100%!!!! LOVE him!!!!
OMG YES!!!!
"Breaking Bad" meets "Justified".
Funny song. Nothing funny about living around these types of people though. Yikes. Lol
Wrong.
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
627 people never got a little bit of vodka with their cherry coke as kids.
What a great song. Probably a little too real for your mainstream music types.
Perfecrly real for the mainstream music types they just have crappy taste in music.
I love a lot of mainstream music but this song was done originally probably 30 years ago and it was good then it's just as good now
Feel like this song was written about my life. NE Oklahoma 4 life! We are America lol
I tell people this is the anthem to the Midwest.
Yes indeed....sadly
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.
I live in DFW but got a little place down in Texoma. Okie and Texas proud. This song is truth.
Sand Springs Oklahoma buddy
Still makes whiskey cuz he still knows how
He cooks that crystal meth because the 'shine don't sell.
From Sherman, TX. This sums up my childhood
I do like that I've been everywhere he mentions. Lol.
EXCELLENT imagery that makes this song even better. Thank You Clay!
Made me jones
Very true.
Thank you James for bein REAL!!!!!From what my 92 yr old grandpa tells me your daddy was REAL TOO!!!!
Read up you’ll be glad you did!!
Owner financed...
I love this song...Never gets old. Makes me laugh......
Me too
I bought "Too long in the Wasteland" when Mellencamp endorsed him 30 years ago. John wasn't lyin'
This song is one of the main reasons I bought the Beer For My Horses soundtrack. Toe tappin' good tune.
Not quite sure how any living soul could dislike this vid/ song.
Me too! I don't know how anyone could possibly not want to get up and move to this song!!!
One of my favorite Trucking songs
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!😂
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.
They ain't American.
I don't like him singin about my sisters that way!
They're his sisters, too, if the DNA test is accurate.
Your sisters, his GrandmaAuntcousin, roll with it, that old BAR will be out soon enough and we're gonna have us a time!
That's some funny shit right there!
Shit, I do.
@ You sound just like a Racist Democrat. By the way, I'm not the same color they are.I only said the how beautiful they were. You sound like one very very ugly person. I bet there's a lot of broken mirrors in your house, As You don't like your reflexion
Could also be about the north Arkansas southern Missouri methamphetamine industry
OR, Winnipeg Manitoba methamphetamine industry and the zombies it creates.
I Always play this when I go to Oklahoma. Oh , I try not to go up there more than needed. JUSSAYN
You can't just make that shit up! Thanks James, love it!
That right and its still True today. That place is a wholenothercountry....
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
Been there, done that, got the T-shirt, & tattoo... :-) McMurtry nailed it !!!
Ruth Ann and Linda sound like my kind of people...
" like an old bull yard fence post.
you could hang a five rail gate from"
@@videodudeX Its actually Bois d' arc fence post (pronounced bordarch in Texas) also known as the osage orange. Super hard wood that makes fence posts that last forever.
Uh, yeah - I want to get between Ruth Ann and Lynne too!!
Do some sister twisters
Great big ole hardon
Till the cows come home
Cousins are great for practice
I'm just sippin crown an smokin weed
You should try my homemade wine wow
How the HELL did I go sooo many years with not being aware of this diamond...
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.❤
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
David Rochon
Peoria Utica Lewis Harvard Yale SHERIDAN - them streets of Tulsa are memorable .
I’ve heard the okie state song..
As much as I love Jimmy. Ray Wylie Hubbard does a version of this song which is also kick ass!
Yeah, gotta love his Crawlin' King Snake beat, and he sings it like he owns it.
bad ass hebrews...
Love that line.
Like Netanyahu?
Yo James. Magnificent. I bet Arlo Guthrie gave you the props you deserve for this best tune of the last 10 years, or what?
Or even Bob Dylan
This is Zack, y'all. "Wheels" is driving. "Rockwall's in tha house, Trip-Z's in ya mouth"
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.
@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.
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!!!
: )
McMurtry don't play.....HE ROX!!
" made by badass Hebrews"!
I bought a damn 50 cal Desert Eagle because of this song, We have us a time shooting that cannon.
Shalom
Best line!!!
Damn straight
I think that's my favorite line in a song, period.
When people ask about life in Oklahoma I show them this song
Everything he describes is real. Seen most all of it.
"He likes that money, he don't mind the smell...." Wow...that's the realest line in the whole song. Grew up on Southeast Oklahoma/Northeast Texas state line, and it's like people cook the shit for sport here. Got a casino to play bingo in every Friday night too.
ever heard of a horseapple?
outspokengirl Avery Tx!
This lady knows how it is.
Just down the road from you. I'm from the thriving metropolis of DeKalb. Avert, Texas it was once the Tomatoe Captal of the world. They had this giant tomatoe ontop of a big sign as you enter Avery City Limits that said welcome to Avery Texas the tomatoe captol of the world. Us kids in the 60's and early seventies we use to steal that big tomatoe of th etop of the sign it was quite a honor to do that we have it in the back of a oick-up truck and whenthe weekend was over we would put the tamota out unharmed somewhere in the general area so someone would find it and they would put it back up but the next weekend someone would take the toematto again that went on and off for many years
So true I got family in SE Oklahoma.
Happy 4th of July from deep in the heart O’ Texas!
James was all bummed one night cuz he said he ain't as famous as his Dad. "Man, I don't care." He's the most contemporary poet I know. Rank him with Leonard Cohen in my book. James, you're fantastic!
Leonard Cohen sucks arse. James M is great.
@@gogan3429 /me shouts "LIT FIGHT!" and beans Go Gan with a moldy paper back copy of "In Watermelon Sugar".
We use to catch catfish on a floating jug drift line. Collected the catch aboard a drum float pontoon boat.
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
There is a lake eleufla on ok
Down yonder bout Thomas Mill 🎩😎
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.
Greatest song I’ve ever heard. Church groove with thoughtful lyrics. Brilliant
Drifting jug lines, kissing cousins, and pistols made by bad ass hebrews. The man can turn a phrase like his pop and pretty good guitarist as well
Love the line, "Do some sister twisters, til the cows come home"! LOLOLOL
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
outlaw music
Sex drugs and rock and roll is nice but incest, meth, guns and country is blowing my mind. And I almost forgot about shitty parenting🙂
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
+janette sturma dude i live down here i see all these places all the time its great in OK
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!!!....
I love this version of this song
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!
This ode to sheer lawlessness makes me feel good all over ... & I liked the reference to 'an old bois d'arc fence post you can hang a pipe-rail gate from' :D ... I'll just stop here, before I wind up on some watch list ...
It’s bodark. Lol
TH-cam put a cancer commercial in the middle of this song !!! 🤬 you ! TH-cam
If you don t live in the South, you won't totally get this. Unfortunate circumstances, but, sadly it occurs. He pretty much nailed it.
Unfortunate? Sad? By no means.
If you live in any part of the South aside from this little stretch of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas you won’t TOTALLY get it. And no, it’s not sad or unfortunate. There is an air of sadness in some of this, but that is beautiful in its own right. Without it, we wouldn’t be who we are.
I am from Oklahoma but live out of state now. This song makes me homesick. LOL
I got an ad in middle of song…..
For what..? 😅
Was it for the Oklahoma snake farm?
oh i don't know...i was in a bar in east st louis in the early 80's with a brand new expensive panama 5" brim i was kinda proud of, & i walked across the empty dance floor towards the men's room, & one of the front men in the band made a remark over the mic about my hat, so i calmly stopped, backed up & asked if he'd been talking to me, & as he bent down from the stage about 4 ft up, i grabbed his shirt collars & faceplanted him, guitar & all...& i am a musician.....-went on to the bathroom......he was white(& black & blue), & i'm white (still have the hat), & i love east st louis. -love this song.
That big ass gun when he said BAR was a 20 mm antitank rifle js
Ya Ryan thanks for clearing that up I knew it wasn't a BAR cause I'm Canadian military background and we had 'em in both WWs, but I did not recognize that thing. Still loved the song, reminds me of a Canadian town called West Gravenhurst.
I think the BAR that he is talking about is the Browning Automatic Rifle M1918A2 it shot a 30.06 round. In Saving Private Ryan it’s the gun that is carried by Private Reiben.
Fuckin guitar doesn’t quit!
Heard this song on the radio some years ago, took me forever to figure out who it was and the name of the song. Fucking love it.
This guy has been reading my mail.
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.
I ain't never heard something describe where I'm from better than this and I ain't even from there.
Clay, you nailed the images.
+FockeWulf200C that big fifty caliber sniper is actually a ww2 era lotti anti tank rifle in 20mm I believe and the BAR he's more likely talking about is the automatic hunting rifle ed Browning makes and the Bar your thinking of was actually a 30-06
Clyde Barrow's weapon of choice was a cut down BAR. He thought the .45 ACP Thompson SMG was just a pop gun.
Except I don't think James meant the biker bar to be touring bicyclists.
@@andytiegs304 I'm sure that was done tongue-in-cheek.
I came up near Baxter. Got family in all these places. Lot of my family in this song.
Except the incest.
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!