Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes

Subject: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Cstargazy
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 05:51 PM

I heard a lyric that started ' I don't care if it rains or freezes, s'long as I got my plastic Jesus glued to the dashboard of my car' back in 1969...it was recorded by the Gold Coast Singers, a couple of Californian wits..has anyone got the lyrics please?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 05:56 PM

Click here for: PLASTIC JESUS IN THE DT

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 05:57 PM

Plastic Jesus Lyrics plus links to other threads about this song

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 05:58 PM

snap ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 05:59 PM

It's called Plastic Jesus. Paul Newman sang this one in "Cool Hand Luke". He learned a few chords on the banjo just to play it.

Here's lots of lyrics for it

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:12 PM

A snippet I heard once:

. . . I don't worry 'bout traffic scrimmage
As long as I've got my graven image
Ridin' on the dashboard of my car. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Cluin
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 06:28 PM

When I'm a-goin' fornicatin'
I got my ceramic Satan
Leerin' from the dashboard of my truck
Behind the wheel, I'm hard an' hurtin'
The women know it's damn well certain
All I'm really lookin' for's a...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: Cstargazy
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 08:50 PM

thank you all for the words and links, Cstargazy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: GUEST,JimP
Date: 09 Aug 07 - 11:35 PM

And then there was the guy back in the '70s who saw the same slogan-festooned car in Berkeley over and over again who came up with:

I don't need no Red Book, now
'Cause I got my Chairman Mao
Standin' on the dashboard of my '68 Chevelle

et cetera (there's a lot more)

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Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: GUEST,JP1147
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 02:15 AM

Sung with great gusto,usually when they are in their cups,by that well known formation drinking team(Bernard Wrigley's description,not mine)
The Wrigley Head Morris Men from Failsworth.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: GUEST,Connie
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 09:29 AM

The tune is also used by Persephone Morris - can't remember which dance though.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 02:50 PM

Somewhere, in my archives, I have a number of old copies of "Sing Out," to which many of us old folkies once subscribed. One of them has the lyrics to "Plastic Jesus" included. I gather that this song, whatever it started out to be, enventually became a compilation of verses submitted by many writers.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: oldhippie
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 09:14 PM

Plastic Jesus is on one of the CDs in The Best of Broadside 1962-88; originally recorded by Ernie Marrs and the Marrs Family, and was written by Ed Rush and George Cromarty, two members of the Goldcoast Singers, based upon an African-American camp meeting song.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I don't care if it rains or freezes
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Aug 07 - 09:30 PM

oldhippie......Go read the linked thread above labeled:

(origins) Who Wrote & Who Made Popular: Plastic Jesus? (55)

You'll find the story as told by Ed Rush.

Spaw