Plastic Jesus lyrics from movie
DBRUM
days. If so, just ignore it. Otherwise:
Here's what I can remember as being what Cool Hand Luke sang in the movie:
I don't care if it rains or freezes
Cause I got a plastic Jesus sittin on the dashboard of my car.
They come in colors pink and pleasant,
Glows in the dark cause it's irridescent,
Carry one when you travel far.
Get yourself a sweet Madona,
Dressed in rhinestones, sittin on a pedastel of abalone shells.
Goin ninety, I ain't scary,
Cause I got the Virgin Mary
Assurin me that I'm not goin to hell.
--from memory. But it's a *little* different from more thorough posts, so
thought it would be germain.
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john.a.welsh
> This might already have been posted when I missed the newsgroup for a few
> days. If so, just ignore it. Otherwise:
> Here's what I can remember as being what Cool Hand Luke sang in the movie:
>
> I don't care if it rains or freezes
> Cause I got a plastic Jesus sittin on the dashboard of my car.
> They come in colors pink and pleasant,
> Glows in the dark cause it's irridescent,
> Carry one when you travel far.
Dom Imus of Imus-in-a-morning fame has a Bill Sol Hargus character
that he does on occasions (he used to do it often). The voice is a
take-off on Bill Graham. He uses this for Hargus' theme song
I don't care if it rains or freezes
Cause I got a plastic Jesus riding on the dashboard of my car.
I can go a hundred miles an hour
As long as I have the almighty power
Glued up there by my pair of fuzzy dice.
Charles Brabec
I just got in to this discussion so pardon me but, What movie was this in?
I've always heard the version by an old 50-60's campus/folk band called
The Goldcoast Singers (my parents' album). They do it as a commercial
heard over the radio while waiting in stopped rush-hour traffic. It goes:
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This song is based on an incedent. A recent incedent. Maybe you've had
the same experience. Driving along a very busy street. In the afternoon
traffic. WIth honking and screaming and scraping of fenders and sweating
and swearing and dust and noise and heat, and you're just glued to the wheel
and it's horrible, and the honking and somebody's bumping into your bumper.
And then you look... at the car next to you... and the guy that's driving
along next to you is all cool and calm... and he has an expression of
Buddha-like serenity... plastered all over his face. And you wonder why
he is so serene. And then, possibly you look to his dashboard. And there
you see, glowing in the afternoon sunlight, about a four inch high, plastic
icon. It is apparently supplying this serenity to him. Maybe this is how he
heard about it:
<click> Good morning friends! This is the hour of reconing!
Hello friends and neighbors,
how do you do?
We're here to pick and sing
and we hope we bring
some happiness to you!
Hallelujah friends and neighbors. Here we are from Del Rio, Texas. Every
morning at 5:30 AM. Brought to you by.... by... The Pink And Pleasant Plastic
Icon Company of Del Rio, Texas. Every morning at 5:30 AM in the morning,
hallelujah. Friends, now we have word for you from our sponsor, The Pink
And Pleasant Plastic Icon Company of Del Rio Texas, hallelujah.
I don't care if it rains or freezes
long's I got my plastic Jesus
glued to the dashboard of my car.
You can buy him phosphorescent,
glows in the dark,
he's Pink And Pleasant
take him with you when you're travelling far.
Halleluhja friends, yes, you too can own one. For only a dollar
and ninety-eight cents, no COD's please, Del Rio, Texas. Hallelujah, and
friends, if you send in this week, two dollars and nighty-eight cents,
you'll get in addition to your Pink and Pleasant Plastic Icon, You'll get
a genuine, stimulated (sic) Pink, Plastic, Baby Jesus television light
for your television set. With a halo that glows and rotates, easing eye
strain, and bringing in better reception. And friends, no COD's please
and friends, if you do send in for this, this week, without fail, and put in
fifty cents extra for stamps, hallelujah you friends, will receive every day
next week a different, a different member of the Holy Family. With a halo
that glows and rotates, a television light-antenna. Imagine friends, the envy
of your neighbors when they come in to watch Mitch Miller at your house, and
they see the entire Holy Family sitting on top of your television set. With
their halos glowing and rotating, easing eye strain and bringing in better
reception. Friends and neighbors, halelujah, what better place for a family
altar than the top of your television set?
You can buy a sweet Madonna,
dressed in rhinestones settin' on a
pedastal of abalone shell...
Goin' ninety I'm not wary
'cause I've got my Virgin Mary
guaranteeing I won't go to Hell!
I don't care if it rains or freezes
long's I got my plastic Jesus
glued to the dashboard of my <click>
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Truely an irreverent classic. Enjoy,
Charles
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