I remember this on the radio when I was a kid.
I only remembered the chorus line so I was delighted to find the lyrics to share with you this morning!

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

Plastic Jesus saved my soul

That reminds me of the funniest movie ever.

Dear infant baby jesus in your golden fleece diaper, bless my hot wife...

I am paraphrasing.

Ricky Bobby's Hawt wife was his blessing from baby jesus....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A0-u85aAYg

Ricky Bobby

Thanks for the link. I am lmao right now listening to it

That movie is hilarious! And eerily accurate! Lmao! Walker & Texas ranger...awesome!
My granny even granny even used to say "paint your back porch red" hilarious!

I just thought a bit of levity would be fun,
but the thread got side tracked with children disrespecting their grandfather, their Mother's father.
I do not see the goodness in allowing children to be so rude to an adult.
Also throwing Grandpas medals off the bridge! Did you see the look on his face?
I know a man who got his butt shot full of lead on Iwo Jima and wondered if he was going to get off that island alive. He was about 18 and half at the time! And it's okay to throw medals of those who served our nation off a bridge????

Just thought you'd all enjoy that the Jesus was a flask glued to his dashboard... and all the other zany lyrics.

In college I had a car that was driven by nuns, hence it became known as the nun mobile. It came with a plastic virigin Mary. I think it was glow in the dark. I removed it to the glove compartment.

I love that song. The older version though...different lyrics.

I had it as my voicemail for the longest time! I recorded Paul Newman singing it in "Cool Hand Luke"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHf7TD4qwjk&feature=youtube_gdata_player



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 02/26/2012 04:28PM by Lost Mystic.