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[Craig Vecchione]

I don't care if it rains or freezes

'Long as I 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 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

Make Him peel, chip and crack

A little patching keeps Him up to par

 

When I'm in a traffic jam

He don't care if I say "damn"

I can let all my curses roll

Plastic Jesus doesn't hear

'Cause 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

 

If I weave around at night

And policemen think I'm tight

They 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

[agedhorse]

I remember the Plastic Jesus song from way back and all the various permuations. Missing from the lyrics Craig posted was the verse about the Goin' 90 I'm not worried cuz I'v got my Virgin Mary guaranteeing I won't go to hell... etc.

This has to go back at least 30-35 years. Anybody know who really made it famous?

[Bugzie]

I almost laughed out loud when I found a cover on my son's latest Billy Idol album

[Craig Vecchione]

This has to go back at least 30-35 years. Anybody know who really made it famous?

 

My exposure to it was in the very early 70's, New York radio station WNBC, Imus in the Morning. One of his bit characters was, "The Reverend Dr. Billie Sol Hargis, of the First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship", who started every sermon with the chorus of this song.....I never knew any more of it or that it was even a complete song until a few years ago when I Googled this to find out if the church name was really "Gooey Death"

 

From what I've read, the song has had many additional/alternative lyrics added by various people, and nobody seems to be certain who actually wrote the original. Maybe it came down from above.......