Drop Kick Me Jesus, thru the goal posts of life

[fin...@husc3.harvard.edu]

Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?

[Hal Laurent]

fin...@husc3.harvard.edu wrote:
: Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?

I don't remember who did it anymore, but it's a real hoot! I'd love to
get my hands on a recording of it. Last time I heard it probably was in
the late 70s.
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[Freedom Spirit Rising]

In a previous article, fin...@husc3.harvard.edu () says:

>Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?

Kris Kristofferson...at least I've heard him sing it...may actually have
it somewhere...will check...

(Freedom)

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"Make sure you learn to take care of yourself and learn to find your own
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that way you'll know what it's like to feel good about yourself."
-Maternal Grandmother of R. Carlos Nakai-

[Allen Knutson]

For that matter, who wrote "There ain't enough room in my Fruit of the Looms
to hold all my love for you"? Is it in fact a real song? Allen K.

[Bob Soron]

In article <1994Jul19.1...@husc3.harvard.edu>,

<fin...@husc3.harvard.edu> wrote:
>Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?

Bobby Bare. I *think* Paul Craft wrote it. Don't remember what LP it's
on, but Bare LPs are easy to find and inexpensive. Not much of his stuff
is on CD.

Bob
bobs...@world.std.com
"It's getting harder and harder to act weird" -- Bill Griffith via Zippy

[ge...@macadam.mpce.mq.edu.au]

In article <1994Jul19.1...@husc3.harvard.edu>,
fin...@husc3.harvard.edu wrote:
>
> Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?

Bernard Bolan has recorded it. I'll try to remember to get more info,
but it's unlikely to help you, as this recording is 1) Australian, and
2) almost surely out of print.

Gerry Myerson

[Casey Phillips]

fin...@husc3.harvard.edu wrote:
: Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?

No, but I LOVE that song.

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[dick greenhaus]

In article <30heb6$c...@clarknet.clark.net>,

It was recorded by Bobby Bare. Words and music are in The Digital Tradition

[R Dalin]

'Drop Kick Me Jesus' is sung regularly in concert by Smokey Greene - I
heard him do it this past June at the Wind Gap Blue Grass Festival. I
suspect that he has recorded it - he has self-produced a large number of
cassettes.

BTW - this is Smokey's last year on the bluegrass circuit - he's retiring.
If you get a chance, go to see him - he puts on a terrific show, and
sings songs (such as 'Slippers With Wings' - an incredible tearjerker)
which few other people can do without sounding utterly ridiculous!

Regards, Richard

[Bob Marshall]

In article <30heb6$c...@clarknet.clark.net>, lau...@clark.net (Hal Laurent) writes:
> fin...@husc3.harvard.edu wrote:
> : Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?
>
> I don't remember who did it anymore, but it's a real hoot! I'd love to
> get my hands on a recording of it. Last time I heard it probably was in
> the late 70s.

Apparently several people replied privately to the original poster that
this song was done by Kinky Friedman. That's a different song, "Plastic
Jesus". The song "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life" was
performed by Bobby Bare. I think he also wrote it. The chorus goes :

"Drop kick me Jesus through the goalposts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of those righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goalposts of life"

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[Rich Ahrens]

In article <1994Jul19.1...@husc3.harvard.edu>, fin...@husc3.harvard.edu writes:
|> Hi -- Anyone know who did this song?

Won't swear to it, but I think it was Kinky Freidman and the Texas Jew-Boys. (Please don't abuse me for the name - he picked it, not me.)

[Hal Laurent]

Bob Marshall (mars...@skynet.ssd.lmsc.lockheed.com) wrote:

: Apparently several people replied privately to the original poster that

: this song was done by Kinky Friedman. That's a different song, "Plastic
: Jesus". The song "Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life" was
: performed by Bobby Bare. I think he also wrote it. The chorus goes :

Paul Craft wrote it, not Bobby Bare.

Hey, is the "Plastic Jesus" song you mentioned the one with the lines:

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I've got my plastic Jesus
Riding on the dashboard of my car

and
I don't care if it's dark and scary
Long as I've got magnetic Mary
Riding on the dashboard of my car

I didn't know it was from Kinky. I'll have to see if I can find a
recording of it.

[Charles H. Winstead]

I have spent many years under the impression that
Bobby Bare wrote DKMJTTGPOL. But I could be wrong,
like the first woman I married.

Does anyone remember "Its No Big Thing--But Its a'Growin"?
I think maybe it was a Merle Haggard song and the country stations
probably stopped playing it when someone fingered the pun.

Also, "I Got the Hungries for Your Love, and I'm a'Waitin' in Your
Welfare Line" by Buck Owens?

You Don't Have to Call Me Darlin' etc.,
Chuck

[Michael Helm]

And another, "Now I'm going for the hat trick, Jesus Mary & St Patrick"
(or is that the Irish-only version? I don't remember it from
the original but hey, what do I remember)
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[Rudi Schmid]

"Plastic Jesus" is not on any of the 4 Kinky Friedman I have. He has done:
"High on Jesus"
"They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore"
Also "Men's room, L.A." has a Jesus theme.

--Rudi Schmid, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley (sch...@garnet.berkeley.edu)

[Nartker]

In article <winstead.1125274580C@martha>, wins...@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
(Charles H. Winstead) writes:

About Drop Kick Me Jesus, Etc.

What about all the Shel Silverstien Songs?

[Andy May]

In article <30qhqq$q...@agate.berkeley.edu>
sch...@garnet.berkeley.edu "Rudi Schmid" writes:

I'll offer "When Jesus Came to Play" by Jethro Tull on 'Catfish Rising'. This
has got to class as folk (ish)

Andy
(who can never quite figure out why he likes this newsgroup so much when he
has never heard 95% of the songs/artists discussed on here)

ruefull :)
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[szwa...@chip.ucdavis.edu]

In article <30qhqq$q...@agate.berkeley.edu> sch...@garnet.berkeley.edu (Rudi Schmid) writes:
>
>"Plastic Jesus" is not on any of the 4 Kinky Friedman I have. He has done:
>"High on Jesus"
>"They ain't makin' Jews like Jesus anymore"
>Also "Men's room, L.A." has a Jesus theme.

It is on the album Prarie Home Invasion by Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon.

Bill Wagman
U.C. Davis
wjwa...@ucdavis.edu

[Dave Palmer]

mars...@lmsc.lockheed.com writes:
"Drop kick me Jesus through the goalposts of life
End over end neither left nor to right
Straight through the heart of those righteous uprights
Drop kick me Jesus through the goalposts of life"

yeh, and i remember a verse which went like: "bring on the brothers
who've gone on before/and all the sisters who've knocked on your
door/all them departed dear loved ones of mine/and set 'em up front in
the offensive line".

that would've been the second verse... i don't remember the first
verse except that it ended "i've got the will, lord, if you've got the
toe..."

--dave
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"Once I had a little game
I liked to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called 'go insane'" Jim Morrison