Lyr Add: Twenty Naked Pentecostals in a Pontiac

Subject: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: Scoville
Date: 24 May 06 - 09:51 AM

My dad recently got himself the CD's of novelty songs played on the Car Talk radio program. This is one of them:

I discovered this morning that it's very nearly a true story. Newspaper references are here, for all you Snopes fans.

TWENTY NAKED PENTECOSTALS IN A PONTIAC
Author: Chris Stuart, 1994
Album: Lonesome Town
Artist: Cornerstone
1995 Folk Era Productions

I was thumbin' my way down to Baton Rouge,
Standin' on the side of the road,
When a car pulled over and a voice cried out,
"We'll take you where you want to go."
I jumped inside, but to my surprise,
They were naked as a poor man's toes.
It was a tight situation when the whole congregation
Said the devil was in my clothes.

   Twenty naked Pentacostals in a Pontiac,
   Brothers and sisters shoutin' in the back,
   Elders in the front, choir in the trunk,
   Twenty naked Pentacostals in a Pontiac.

The sermon that morning was on Adam and Eve
And the ways of the dreadful snake,
Everybody was clappin' when the preacher pointed at me,
My body began to shake.
I threw off my shirt, and my shoes and my socks,
My jeans and my BVDs.
We were all in the nude, shoutin' "halleloo!"
And singing "Sombody Touched Me."

   CHORUS

We had the cruise control set to fifty-five,
When a Smokey got on our tail,
He pulled up beside, his eyes got wide,
And the siren began to wail.
We ran off the road toward the tree of life,
Lord, the future was looking bleak,
We hung on and prayed, everybody was saved,
'Cause we all knew how to turn the other cheek.

   CHORUS

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 May 06 - 10:44 AM

Lord Take Me!

I've seen it all!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 May 06 - 10:53 AM

And as you can see, not everyone around hee is surprised......LOL.....There is very little, no matter how silly, that we haven't talked about on the 'Cat. Thanks for the link!!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: Scoville
Date: 24 May 06 - 11:10 AM

I just realized that whoever typed in the lyrics originally didn't know how to spell "Pentecostals" (must not have been from around here . . . ).

We thought it was pretty damned funny to begin with, but it's even funnier now that I know it actually happened.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 24 May 06 - 04:46 PM

I first heard about this on WBBM out of Chicago---a CBS "all nudes-all the time" station.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 May 06 - 04:57 PM

Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of oats
20 naked pentecostals riding in a boat
When the boat tips over, the pentecostals sing
"What a rotten day on which to have a foundering!"

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 May 06 - 07:38 PM

Could you please identify the CD more precisely? It's a bit difficult to locate in locally here in Austria from that vague description.

Damn Spell Checker! Put me in the wrong country now - AUSTRALIA!

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 24 May 06 - 08:39 PM

G'day Foolestroupe,

The link to "Tune Req: Naked Pentecostals (9)" above includes a blicky to a site that may have (back then) had the recording ... but no longer does! It may be a good starting point for more searching - but I don't see myself singing this one ...

Regard(les)s,

Bob

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: Barbara
Date: 24 May 06 - 09:47 PM

You can order the CD like I did from the Car Talk website. Don't have it right to hand, but if you put "Click and Clack, the Tappet brothers" in the search engine, that should take you there.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: GUEST,Pamela in Ithaca
Date: 24 May 06 - 10:49 PM

Cornerstone was an Ithaca band back in the 1990s.
Some of the band members still live here, though
I don't think that Chris is here and the band has
pretty much broken up.
I remember Chris singing this on the Bound for Glory
live-broadcast radio show when the song was brand new.
He told about seeing the news article, and thinking
"if I can't make a song out of _that_.....!"
The rest is history.

I don't know if the Cornerstone recording is still in print.
There are some other great songs there as well.

Happy hunting - PSG

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 May 06 - 05:29 AM

Buying things from outside Australis is an expensive hassle, what with postage, insurance, and then currency conversion - air freight costs almost as much as some items themselves.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: Scoville
Date: 25 May 06 - 10:36 AM

Sorry, here's the website:

http://www.cartalk.com

It's under "Shameless Commerce" at the top of the page. Dad got the "Car Talk Music Gift Pack" with two CD's.

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 May 06 - 07:07 PM

I had a look. Might put them on my Secret Santee Wish List... :-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Topical--Twenty Naked Pentecostals
From: Scoville
Date: 26 May 06 - 09:57 AM

THere are some other hilarious songs on there, including an Andrew Lloyd Webber-ish take on the Plymouth Horizon, and a country-folk one about drivers who are jerks. The other CD is more "real" songs (not quite as novelty) but still pretty good (I like the one about "if a $1,000 were worth a damn, why would anyone spend 10 grand?").