King Earl Boogie Band - Plastic Jesus

[budcritchlow]

Can you believe the BBC band this song on the grounds of Blasphemy. Typical BBC , the channel should of been called the PCC !!!. Politically Correct Channel. It's a great song by the King Earl Boogie Band and a great post ***** ;-)

[TrippyTheShroom]

This is amazing.

[joeysn7hvn]

Thank you Heathen drunks who wrote this song. It's cool

[mjgross2]

Though I sin and though I swear,

Plastic Jesus, he don't care

He don't condemn me, though I give him reason

To keep him thinking I'm a saint

I give him a fresh coat of paint

And he knows that I ain't no lousy heathen

[niedec]

When I'm driving 'round at night,

I know I can feel alright

if my eyes should close every now and then.

Plastic Jesus will protect me.

Either that, or resurrect me

someday, should I sleep through "Left Lane Ends."

[carmium]

Crap. Now I know why everyone double-spaced their lyric posting. Stoopid YT ignores the return key.

[carmium]

Prayed to God but I'm still waitin' so I bought a plastic Satan, As a car accessory he's swell! When the weather's not too rosy he keeps the car all warm 'n' cosy, I don't really mind the sulfur smell! All the traffic flees in panic when they sense something satanic come their way at 90 miles per hour! Maybe it's the purple lightnin' other drivers find so frightnin' Me, I just enjoy the extra power.

[princeadeshoga]

@carmium LOL Plastic Satan LOL

[rtch77]

good job

[MACHAWK123]

One of those songs that has stuck in my mind for nearly 40 years and still as good today as it was then, from a fabulous album too!

[connormcj25]

Plastic jesus ridin on the dashboard of my car. he dont slip nor he dont slide cus' his ass is magnetised.

[CowbellProfessional]

Going 90, I'm not wary, 'cause I got my Virgin Mary, guaranteed that I won't go to Hell.

[cliffhammond]

I'm going to stick one of these on my dashboard and declare my car a church. Then I'm going to apply for tax exempt status and get rid of those stupid plates on the back bumper.

[Livesteam45]

Thank you IMan

[mikeatvillage]

When I'm goin' fornicatin'

I've got my ceramic satan

Welded to the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home

[marcmickey]

i got to get a plastic jesus - i dont feel safe no more - ha ha

good song

[Heaven4Believers]

love this song!

[jive4005]

so who wouldn't like this!!!

[colourmegone]

Looked everywhere for this song, finally found it here. Remember the first time I heard it as a teenager, not this version, and laughed all the way through. There was a DJ called Dr Demento who used to play loads of stuff, including Spike Jones.

[StreetsGTR]

@colourmegone omg! Dr Demento is the guy who brought weird al on to the radio!

[Glorytochris]

you should see the version of LT. and the winedrunk patrolman :)

[jws54]

one time...one time, we were riding in my friends car to a store, and then...and then when we got there,..the muffler was loose and so...and so,,,we sang church songs all the way back, and when...when... we stopped singing, the muffler fell off!

[skidrowtours]

I first encountered this song in a book of traditional folk songs when I was a kid in the '60's. It had 2 verses and then said that everyone that performs this song usually adds their own original verses to it to make it sort of their own. The book encouraged everyone to do so. The Paul Newman version in the film "Cool Hand Luke" uses the lyrics from when it was used as an advertising jingle for a plastics company that made the dashboard icons. This is not the original but a great version anyway

[charlesedwardberry]

Very funny but good toonage all the same i mean a lump of plastic is just that a lump of plastic lol.

[SkopTeocratico]

I love this song, all the versions... simply wonderful.

[Ultramerican1]

not the original at all.

still a great song though.

[billpeterson5150]

the magnet is messing up the radio-that refers to the old steel dashboards we used to have, the ol' "noggin splitters"

[filibusted]

great song? yes. the original? far from it.

[raccoon1954]

Way back in the very early seventies this came out. Its a shame more of the tunes from "Trouble at Mill" are not on here. I still play this one when I need cheering up. If you need to know, King Earl were part of Mungo Jerry, another great band from the 60s and 70s. Lady Rose being one of my favourites. What about the "Skeleton Crew", some great tunes there.

[vondytulsa]

Ok, so this was sent to me as a joke and I actually thought it was beyond funny...BUT when I started reading the seriousness in these responses...you gotta be kidding me!! What a way to start the day!! I'll be chuckling about this all day no doubt...

[matthewcurran69]

i have a buddy jesus screwed onto my dash. useless information but while we're on the topic of plastic jesus' and dashboards..

[Valkyrie801]

Oh' my god how I love this song!

The trumpet and trombone players are excellent!

[dale19532]

The Sallymacs version my favorite - pity that most people don't remember metal dashboards and magnetized plastic Jesus and Mary statues.

[kjelle59]

This Plastic Jesus is my favorit since I heard it in the 80-ies I think. Given to me by a Swedish Radio d.j. I gave him a tip of Burl Ives singing Bob Dylan, whom he planned to interview on Swedish Radio broadcasting. He then ended the program with "Times are changing". Anyhow King Earl Boogie Band are really good. The harmonies and lyric are very special.

Kjell

Boxholm, Sweden

[PlungerA10]

I'm so old, I remember this being on Radio 1's playlist. Oh yeah, got ma covert tranny confiscated during an especially tedious bout of double geography : (

[PlungerA10]

I'm so old I remember this being on Radio 1's playlist! Oh yeah, got ma covert tranny confiscated during an especially tedious bout of double geography : (

[nbelsky]

I'm safe from all sorts of folly, 'cause I got the goddess Kali

Riding on the dashboard of my car.

Traffic cops they never scold me,

She has got eight arms to hold me.

riding on the dashboard of my car.

My life is a bed of roses, 'cause I got magnetic Moses.

Riding on the dashboard of my car.

Traffic jams don't bother me.

They part just like the old Red Sea.

Riding on the dashboard of my car.

[dancingtheedge]

@nbelsky this rocks! :)

[boc1953]

@nbelsky If I ever lose my way,

I just turn to him and say

"You know the way, the bible tells me so"

So I never need to stress

and I don't need no GPS

'Cos plastic Jesus tells me where to go

[DammitDrag]

ANybody know where I can download this, KILLER !

[koradan]

I have a way of extracting the audio off this. Just let me know how I can send the audio file to you.

[DammitDrag]

Send it to dammitdrag@gmail and thanks so much.

[DammitDrag]

I got the file and haven't shut it off for an entire afternoon. Thanks from the bottom of my heart !

[koradan]

NP. Have you heard the Billy Idol version?

[DammitDrag]

Yes but it doesn't have the soul as the King Earl version does.

[drohegda]

if this version of this song does'nt get you up stompin your feet, you have a hole in your soul!! i love music, thank you, Happy New Year drohegda

[DammitDrag]

amen !!

[IamGort]

Superb.