I don't care if it rains or freezes
long as I got my plastic Jesus
right here on the dashboard
of my old Ford
I don't care if it rains or freezes long as I've got my Plastic Jesus
Ridin' 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, ridin' 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.
Ridin' down the thoroughfare with his nose up in the air
A wreck may be ahead but he don't mind.
Trouble comin' he don't see, He just keeps his eyes on me
And any other thing that lies behind.
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus, ridin' on the dashboard of my car.
Though the sun shines on his back makes him peel and 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 sorts of curses roll;
Plastic Jesus doesn't hear for he has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saves my soul.
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus, ridin' on the dashboard of my car.
Once his robe was snowy white, now it isn't quite so bright
Stained by the smoke from my cigar.
I don't care about traffic damage as long as I've got that graven image
Guiding me at night from bar to bar.
You can have one phosphorescent, glows in the dark he's pink and pleasant
Take him with you when you're traveling far.
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus, ridin' on the dashboard of my car
I'm afraid he'll have to go, his magnet wrecks my radio
and if I have a wreck he'll leave a scar.
When the traffic starts to get hairy, I grab my two bit Virgin Mary
Stand her next to Christ upon the dash.
Hail Mary full of grace, Bless me in my stoplight race
Save me from an awful auto crash.
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus, ridin' 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.
When pedestrians try to cross I let them know that I'm the boss
I never blow my horn or give them warning
I ride all over town, trying to run them down
It's seldom that they live to see the morning
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus Riding on the dashboard of my car
His halo it fits just right, and I use it as a sight
They'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far
If I weave around at night And the police think I'm tight
They'll 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
I don't care if it's dark or scary, long as I have magnetic Mary,
Ridin' on the dashboard of my car,
I feel I'm protected amply, I've got the whole damn Holy Family,
Riding on the dashboard of my car.
I don't care if it bumps or jostles long as I got the Twelve Apostles
Bolted to the dashboard of my car
Don't I have a pious mess, such a crowd of holiness
Strung across the dashboard of my car
Plastic Jesus you're my hope, cos you got my stash of dope,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
I don't care if I slip and slide, cuz your ass is magnetized,
sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
You can buy a pink Madonna dressed in rhinestones, sittin' on a
Pedestal of abalone shell
Goin' ninety isn't scary, long as I got my Virgin Mary
Guaranteein' I won't go to hell.
When I'm goin' fornicatin' I got my ceramic Satan
Sinnin' on the dashboard of my Winnebago Motor Home
The women know I'm on the level thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil
Ridin' on the dashboard of my ...
Sneerin' from the dashboard of my ...
Leering from the dashboard of my van.
I don't care if I'm broke or starvin'
As long as I've got a fish named Darwin
Glued to the trunklid of my car
God, I'm feeling so evolved
Drivin' with my problems solved
Proclaiming what I think of what we are
There is nothin that is cuter
than a smilin Jolly Buddha,
Ridin on the dashboard of my car,
I don't have no idol cuter,
comes in plastic, bronze and pewter,
Take him with me when I go afar.
Jolly Buddha, fat and squattin,
on a pad of aspirin cotton,
He's with me wherever I may roam,
When it's late and I start to hurry,
I know he ain't gonna worry,
He looks at me and all he says is, "Oooommmmmmm."
There is nothing that is gaucher
Than eatin food that isn't kosher,
Right in front of my smilin Moses' face,
I'm afraid that he'll awaken
When I'm eatin ham or bacon,
And throw them Ten Commandments in my face.
For safety you can't top the Torah
which explains the huge Menorah
up there on the rooftop of my car
I know I have done my utmost
With my mezuzah on the doorpost
Please touch it as you get into the car
I press firmly on the pedal
protected by a St. Chris medal
fastened to the dashboard of my car
Now I hear he's been demoted
To him we'll no more be devoted
I'll peel him from the dashboard of my car
There's a crystal made of glass
Which creates a blinding flash
Hanging from the mirror of my car
Though it makes it hard to see
It brings the cosmic energy
To focus on the dashboard of my car
With other cars I will not tangle
Long as I have that fine pentagle
riding on the dashboard of my car
My new car it has lots of room
much better than my other broom
I'm getting tired, could you drive a spell?
My view ahead is clear to see
Because an atheist that's me
With nothing on the dashboard of my car
On the road my sole protector
Is a good radar detector
Looking through the windshield of my car
On the road I fear no moron
For I have my trusty Koran
Riding in the glove-box of my car
My faith's as solid as can be
I'll make the mountains come to me
Soon I will no longer need the car
Other drivers they should fear me
for I have their effigy
riding on the dashboard of my car
No more in life will they be grinnin'
After I just shove this pin in
They'll wish they'd never bumped into this car
Though in faith we are diverse
In cars our outlook grows perverse
We drive as though our brains was made of tar
Different idols seem to linger
But every driver has one finger
Waving it at every other car