Tom: D
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Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,
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Long as I have my plastic Jesus
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Riding on the dashboard of my car
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Through all trials and tribulations,
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We will travel every nation,
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With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
[Verse]
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Riding through the thoroughfare
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With his nose right up there in the air
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A wreck may be ahead, but he don't mind
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Trouble coming, but he don't see
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He just keeps his plastic eyes on me
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And any other thing that rides behind
[Verse]
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God made Christ a Holy Jew
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made Him a Christian too
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Paradoxes populate my car
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Joseph beams nfeignied elan
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From the shaggy dash of my furlined van
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Famous cuckold in the master plan
[Verse]
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Right theres Naughty Mary, snug and smiling
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Jesus dainty and beguiling
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Knee-deep in the piling of my van
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His message clear by night or day
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My phosphorescent plastic Gay
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Simpering on the dashboard of my van
[Chorus]
D G
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus,
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riding on the dashboard of my car
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Through all trials and tribulations,
G
we will travel every nation,
D A D Dsus4 D
with my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
[Verse]
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When I find myself in a traffic jam
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He don't care if I say Damn
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I just let all the curses roll
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Plastic Jesus doesn't hear
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cuz he's sportin a plastic ear
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The man who invented plastic saved my soul
[Verse]
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You can buy a sweet Madonna,
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dressed in rhinestone sitting on a
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pedestal of abalone shell
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Goin' ninety, I'm not scary,
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'Cause I've got my Virgin Mary
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guaranteeing I won't go to Hell
[Verse]
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I don't care if it bumps or jostles
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I got the Twelve Apostles
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Bolted to the dashboard of my car
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Don't I sew a pious mess
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Such a crowd of holiness
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Strung across the dashboard of my car
[Verse]
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I don't care if it's dark or scary,
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I got magnetic Mary,
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ridin' on the dashboard of my car
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I feel I'm protected amply,
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I've got the whole Holy Family,
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riding on the dashboard of my car
[Chorus]
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Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
D A Asus4 A
Riding on the dashboard of my car
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Once his robe was snowy white
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Now it isn't quite so bright
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Stained by the smoke of my cigar
D G
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus,
D A Asus4 A
riding on the dashboard of my car
D
Through all trials and tribulations,
G
we will travel every nation,
D A D Dsus4 D
with my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
