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- Subject: CRD: Plastic Jesus
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- From: choover@charlie.usd.edu (Christopher J. Hoover)
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 18:23:19 GMT
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- Hmmmm. I think this is an example of there being _many_ different versions
- of the same folk song. Some of the lyrics posted I've never heard for
- "Plastic Jesus." If anyone has any complete alternate lyrics to "Plastic
- Jesus," I'd be interested in them. A friend of mine has yet another set of
- lyrics for "PJ" in her hand-written lyric book--I'll try to lift them from
- her next time I see her. What follows here are chords and lyrics for
- "Plastic Jesus" as given by _The Folksinger's Wordbook_. Sorry, no tab.
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- "Plastic Jesus"
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- Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
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- Long as I have my plastic Jesus,
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- C G7
- Riding on the dashboard of my car;
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- Through all trials and tribulations,
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- We will travel every nation,
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- C G7 C
- With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
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- F C
- Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus,
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- G7
- Riding on the dashboard of my car,
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- C
- Through all trials and tribulations,
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- F
- We will travel every nation,
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- C G7 C
- With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
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- I don't care if it's dark or scary,
- Long as I have magnetic Mary,
- Ridin' on the dashboard of my car,
- I feel I'm protected amply,
- I've got the whole damn Holy Family,
- Riding on the dashboard of my car.
- No I don't care if it rains or freezes,
- Long as I have my plastic Jesus,
- Riding on the dashboard of my car,
- But I think He'll have to go,
- His magnet ruins my radio,
- And if we have a wreck he'll leave a scar.
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- Riding down a thoroughfare,
- With His nose up in the air,
- A wreck may be ahead, but He don't mind,
- Trouble coming He don't see,
- He just keeps His eye on me,
- And any other thing that lies behind.
- Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus,
- Riding on the dashboard of my car:
- Though the sunshine on His back,
- Makes Him peel, chip and crack,
- A little patching keeps Him up to par.
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- When pedestrians try to cross,
- I let them know who's boss,
- I never blow the horn or give them warning;
- I ride all over town,
- Trying to run them down,
- And it's seldom that they live to see the morning.
- Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus,
- Riding on the dashboard of my car:
- His halo fits just right
- And I use it for a sight,
- And they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far.
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- When I'm in a traffic jam,
- He don't care if I say "damn",
- I can let all sorts of curses roll,
- Plastic Jesus doesn't hear,
- For He has a plastic ear--
- The man who invented plastic saved my soul.
- Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus,
- Riding on the dashboard of my car:
- Once His robe was snowy white,
- Now it isn't quite so bright,
- Stained by the smoke of my cigar.
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- If I weave around at night,
- And the police think I'm tight,
- They'll never find my bottle, though they ask;
- Plastic Jesus shelters me,
- For His head comes off, you see--
- He's hollow, and I use Him for a flask.
- Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus,
- Riding on the dashboard of my car:
- Ride with me and have a dram,
- Of the blood of the Lamb,
- Plastic Jesus is a holy bar.
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- Chris
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