[Verse 1]
You're just like a stranger when you're in a bingo trance
The kids don't even know you anymore
With your bingo bag and dauber and your lucky bingo pants
You look like a soldier going off to war

You beg the kids for money, but they hide their piggy banks
You're just like my uncle when he needs a drink
You're mumbling and you're sweating and you got the bingo shakes
I think it's time to see a bingo shrink

[Pre-Chorus]
You used to go to bingo
Only once a week
Then you got the fever
Now you're a bingo freak

[Chorus]
You play bingo up in Lanse with your mother and your aunts
And you tell me that it's only recreation
But you always get so hot when you have to split the pot
They have to kick you off the reservation

[Verse 2]
I remember on our honeymoon, I didn't sleep at all
Cause you kept yelling Bingo in your sleep
You dragged me out of bed and threw me up against the wall
And said you better call I17 you creep
Then there was that other time down at the legion hall
Remember that ole lady that you clobbered
You were playing 50 cards and she was playing one
She yelled bingo and you stabbed her with your dauber

[Pre-Chorus]
You used to go to bingo
To play it just for kicks
Now you're A bingo junkie
And you need A bingo fix

[Chorus]
You play bingo up in Lanse with your mother and your aunts
And you tell me that it's only recreation
But you always get so hot when you have to split the pot
They have to kick you off the reservation

[Verse 3]
Now here you are just sitting In this Marquette County jail
For beating up that poor old bingo caller
You said that gummer rigged the game, he wouldn't let you win
He pretended that he didn't hear you holler

You tried to kick the habit
But it drove you up the wall
So you snuck out with your bingo buddies
Up to the bingo hall
[Chorus]
You play bingo up in Lanse with your mother and your aunts
And you tell me that it's only recreation
But you always get so hot when you have to split the pot
They have to kick you off the reservation