Plastic Jesus song lyrics?
David Hinz Mfg 4-6987
in "Coolhand Luke"? It starts something like this:
I don't care if it rains or freezes
long as I got my plastic Jesus
glued to the dashboard of my car...
(The rest of the song is a mystery to me, but extremely funny)
Any help would be appreciated...thanks!
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Dave Hinz - Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. Obviously.
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john.blandino
>Does anyone have the lyrics to the "Plastic Jesus" song that Clint (?) sang
>in "Coolhand Luke"? It starts something like this:
>I don't care if it rains or freezes
>long as I got my plastic Jesus
>glued to the dashboard of my car...
>(The rest of the song is a mystery to me, but extremely funny)
Dave:
I have an April 1964 issue of Sing Out with the following lyrics:
I dont care if it rains or freezes
As long as I've got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
Through my trials and tribulations, and my travels through the nations
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car
I'm afraid He'll have to go
His magnets ruin my radio
And if I have a wreck He'll leave a scar
Riding down the throughfair, with his head up in the air
A wreck may be ahead but he dont mind
Trouble coming he dont see
He just keeps his eye on me
and every other thing that lies behind
Plastic......
Riding.......
Though the sunshine on his back
makes him peel and chip and crack
A little patching keeps him up to par
When pedestrians try to cross, I let them know whos boss
I never blow a horn or give them warning
I ride all over town,
trying to run them down
and its seldom that they live to see the morning
Plastic......
Riding......
His halo fits just right
and I use it for a site
and they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far.
When I'm in a traffic jam, He dont care if I say "Damm"
I can let all sorts of curses roll
Plastic Jesus dosnt hear
for He has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saved my soul.
Plastic.....
Riding......
Once His robe was snowey white
now it isnt quite so bright
stained by the smoke of my cigar
If I weave around at night, and the police think I'm tight
They'll never find my bottle, though they'll ask
Plastic Jesus shelters me
for his head comes off, you see
He's hollow and I use him as a flask
Plastic.....
Riding....
Ride with me and have a dram
of the blood of the lamb
Plastic Jesus is a holy bar
The following are some aditional verses from the same issue of Sing Out
I dont care about traffic damage, long as I've got that graven immage
Sitting there guiding me from bar to bar
You can have one phosphorescent
glows in the dark Hes pink and pleasant
Take him along when you go traveling far.
When trafic starts to get too scary, I grab my two bit Virgin Mary
Stand her next to Christ upon my dash
Hail Mary, full of grace
Bless me in my stop light race
save me from an awful auto crash
You can buy a fine madonna, dressed in rhinestones, sittin' on a
Pedistal of abalone shells
Goin 90 I'm not wary
'Cause I got my Virgin Mary
Guarenteed to keep me out of hell
I dont care if the sun dont shine, that dime store icon so divine
Has always taken right good care of me
Father' Son and Holy Ghost
I'm the one they love the most
Ive got the Lamb of God in front of me.
Have fun.....Keep in touch
John
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John Blandino john.b...@mixcom.COM
"Enough is as good as a feast"
Mary Poppins
Earth-daughter
>
much deleted, most of it unfamiliar to me..
> Plastic......
> Riding.......
> Though the sunshine on his back
> makes him peel and chip and crack
> A little patching keeps him up to par
>
> John
this is interesting, because the version of plastic jesus *i* heard
was by the Brothers Four, and it went something like this:
(guitar music)
i don't care if it rains or freezes,
long as i have my plastic jesus
glued to the dashboard of my car;
set him up he's pink and pleasant,
glows in the dark; he's phosphorescent -
take him with you when you're travelin' far.
(music stops, they start talking)
HOWdy friends and neighbors! yes, you too can own your very own
Plastic Jesus for ONLY $2.99 plus shipping/handling from the
Pink and Pleasant Plastic Icon Company, DEL Rio Texis...
[then they go off into their sales schpiel and continue with
something like:]
AND, friends and neighbors, for an ADDITIONAL, small sum of only
$12.95 [not the right price, but you get the picture], you can
also get, from the Pink and Pleasant Plastic Icon Company (Del
Rio, Texas), a Pink, Pleasant, Plastic, Icon of the Holy FAmily,
which you can place on top of your television set, with halos,
glowing and rotating and bringing in better reception.
Yes, friends and neighbors, what better place for the family altar
than on top of your television set?...
and i have forgotten the rest, but it's hysterical.
(charles, if you see this perhaps you could help? (help!))
i've been looking for this in used record stores and it is
incredibly rare (i have yet to see it). most people have never
even heard of the Brothers Four.
so anyway, there are obviously at least two versions of the song.
the one my mother is familiar with is the version i've mentioned
as well.
shannon the mouthy pushy ranting broad who would be grateful indeed
if anyone could tell her how to get a hold of either or
both versions of this song, or even let her send them a
tape and record the album that he has (hint, hint, charles)
:)
The Lindsay-Geyer Corp
I suggest you get Jerry Silverman's Folk Song Encyclopaedia, vol's 1 & 2. Therein, you will find "Plastic Jesus" along with "Johnson's Motor Car" and other favorites. If you are interested in more raunch (and the interewting history thereof), I suggest the book "Bawdy Ballads" , Cray, ed. 1989 Omnibus Press, London
Calvin G.