No, I don't care if it rains or freezes
long as I have my plastic Jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car.
But I think he'll have to go
his magnet ruined my radio
and if we have a wreck he'll leave a scar.
Riding through the thoroughfare
with his nose up in the air
a wreck may be ahead but he don't mind.
Trouble coming he don't see it
he just keeps his eye on me
and any other thing that lies behind.
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car.
Though the sunshine on his back
makes him peel, chip and crack
a little patching keeps him up to par.
When pedestrians try to cross
I let them know whose boss
I never blow my horn or give a warning.
I just drive all over town
trying my best to run them down
It's seldom that they live to see the morning
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car.
His golden halo fits just right
and I use it as a sight
They'll scatter or they'll splatter near and far.
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
cause he has a plastic ear
The man who invented plastic saved my soul.
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
riding on the dashboard of my car.
Once his robe was snowy white
now it isn't quite so bright
stained by the smoke of my cigar.
God made him a holy Jew
God made him a Christian too
paradoxes populate my car.
Joseph beams with feigned elan
from the shaggy dash of my fur lined van
a famous cuckhold in the master plan.
Naughty Mary smug and smiling
Jesus dainty and beguiling
his message clear by night or day
My phosphorescent plastic gay.
simpering from the dashboard of my van.
when I'm going a fornicating
I got my ceramic Satan
sitting on the dashboard of my van
the women know I'm on the level
thanks to the wild-eyed stoneware devil
leering from the dashboard of my van.
If I weave around at night
and the police think I'm tight
they 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.