Plastic Jesus

[AggieDave 6]

I had totally forgotten this song, until by chance, I was watching Cool Hand Luke tonight. I had to leave the room when he started playing it, so I could look up the tab for it!

Yup, I'm gonna have to play this at Open Mic next week, what a fun song...

If you want, I can post the lyrics.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[quade 4]

You mean . . .

I don't care if it rains or freezes
Long as I got my Plastic Jesus
Glued to the dashboard of my car . . .

and on it goes . . .

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[AggieDave 6]

Yup, that is the one! Man, what a fun song.

I'll probably go to hell for singing it, though.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[quade 4]

Here ya go . . .

http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/plastic0.htm

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[AggieDave 6]

Thanks Paul, but I was saying that I could post them if someone wanted to read them.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[quade 4]

Yeah, but this web site has the chords you wanted and all the alternate verses!

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The World's Most Boring Skydiver

[ltdiver 3]

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Yeah, but this web site has the chords you wanted and all the alternate verses!

Oh, come on....post the music with it so we can all bash our head against a wall somewhere while the tune can't escape our ears!

ltdiver

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon

[Douva 0]

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I had totally forgotten this song, until by chance, I was watching Cool Hand Luke tonight. I had to leave the room when he started playing it, so I could look up the tab for it!

Yup, I'm gonna have to play this at Open Mic next week, what a fun song...

If you want, I can post the lyrics.

Cool Hand Luke is my all-time favorite movie. It's the quintessential character driven film. The scene where Paul Newman sings "Plastic Jesus" is one of the best (if not the best) in the movie. Every now and then, I just find myself breaking into the song for no obvious reason.

--Douva

I don't have an M.D. or a law degree. I have bachelor's in kicking ass and taking names.

[Jonno5 0]

I dont know, i thaught the scene with Lucille was pretty good.

[peacefuljeffrey 0]

Why not do a medley, and segue into "Wooden Jesus" by Temple of the Dog?

---Jeffrey

-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

[WrongWay 0]

Ya know, I've always wondered what Jesus would have on the dash of his car.

It can't be a plastic Jesus, cuz then he'd be like "Hey I have my own bobble head", and a little dog would just be stupid.

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The wiser wolf prevails.

[EdC 0]

He would have that bumper sticker that says "Dad is my co-pilot"

Big Ed

[HRHSkyPrincess 0]

I'll meet you there.

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[HRHSkyPrincess 0]

I can eat 50 eggs.

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[cvfd1399 0]

This plastic Jesus?

[WrongWay 0]

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He would have that bumper sticker that says "Dad is my co-pilot"

And another that says "I'm a Jewish Carpenter"

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The wiser wolf prevails.

[AggieDave 6]

Here, I shortened the song down to make it Open Mic Night friendly, and I'm going to start the first verse and chorus real slow, singing it like a church song. Then pick it up...I wonder if anyone will get it, get the reference or if they'll stop listening at the first since they think its a religious song...I bet when they hear the last chorus they'll go "WTF, mate?" and wish they'd listen to it.

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C (C7)
Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
F
Long as I have my plastic Jesus
C D7
Riding on the dashboard of my car
C
Through all trials and tribulations,
F
We will travel every nation,
C G7 C
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.

F C
cho: Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
C (D7) G7
Riding on the dashboard of my car
C (C7)
Through all trials and tribulations,
F (F#dim7)
We will travel every nation,
C G7 C
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.


I don't care if it rains or freezes
's long as I've 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.

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.

You can buy a Sweet Madonna
Dressed in rhinestones sitting on a
Pedestal 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 bumps or jostles
Long as I got the Twelve Apostles
Bolted to the dashboard of my car
Don't I have a pious mess
Such a crowd of holiness
Strung across the dashboard of my car

When pedestrians try to cross
I let them know whose boss
I never blow my 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 as a sight
And they'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far

God made Christ a Holy Jew
God made Him a Christian too
Paradoxes populate my car
Joseph beams with a feigned elan
From the shaggy dash of my furlined van
Famous cuckold in the master plan;

Naughty Mary, smug and smiling,
Jesus dainty and beguiling
Knee-deep in the piling of my van;
His message clear by night or day
My phosphorescent plastic Gay
Simpering from the dashboard of my van.

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.

--"When I die, may I be surrounded by scattered chrome and burning gasoline."

[crapflinger2000 1]

Plastic Jesus gotta go!

'Cause he screws up my radio!

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[JVig 0]

Thanks Aggie DAve!! You Rock!! been looking for this song for some time now....got misdirected by the song "Own Personal Jesus" but you put me back on track...thanks again!!

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[Kennedy 0]

That's not Plastic Jesus!

That's the Buddy Christ!

OK, who knows what the hell I'm talking about?

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Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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[SkydiverRick 0]

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I can eat 50 eggs.

"That's impossible, nobody can eat 50 eggs."

never pull low......unless you are

[mdrrus 0]

Don't forget this verse.

Going 90 it don't scare me,
as long as I got my Virgin Mary,
glued to the dashboard of my car.
......

[Kennedy 0]

The Buddy Christ, from Dogma. George Carlin, Matt Damon, and that POS ben something-or-other. The one that was owned by JLo.

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Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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[KawiZX900 0]

if you go to the view askew website and take a look around you can buy your very own (Buddy Christ) thumbs up and everything!

Accelerate hard to get them looking, then slam on the fronts and rollright beside the car, hanging the back wheel at eye level for a few seconds. Guaranteed reaction- Dave Sonsky