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   From: philo@privacy.net   
      
   On 12/10/2010 10:34 AM, Will Dockery wrote:   
   > On Dec 10, 8:35 am, philo  wrote:   
   >> those who got incurable diseases...   
   >> them's the ones who prays to Jesus.   
   >>   
   >> those who just sneezes,   
   >> they does what they pleases.   
   >   
   > Reminds me of "Plastic Jesus" a favorite folkie tune that circulates   
   > the open mics during the X-Mas season:   
   >   
   > "...'Plastic Jesus' was printed in Broadside in February 1964 and then   
   > in   
   > Sing Out! in April 1964 (Vol. 14, No. 2).  It generated a storm of   
   > controversy -- sacrilegious, obscene, inane and sophomoric among the   
   > more printable comments -- along with considerabl e enthusiasm.   
   > Later   
   > that year, in Sing Out! Vol. 14, No. 5, Ernie Marrs told what he knew   
   > about the history of the song.  He had first been turned on to it by   
   > Pat   
   > Sky who had learned it from someone else and so on into obscurity.   
   > But   
   > Pat only knew one v erse.  So Ernie added three more with the idea of   
   > including it on an LP that never made it out.  The recording engineer   
   > added another verse.  These 5 verses made up the song as it appeared   
   > in   
   > both Broadside and Sing Out!  Meanwhile another four verses had come   
   > into the Sing Out! office sent by Ken Layne from Glendale,   
   > California,   
   > and these also appeared along with the original [...] According to   
   > Ernie, the song was first recorded by the Goldcoast Singers   
   > who say they learned it 'from a Cal co-ed of our acquaintance.'..." -   
   > Irwin Silber   
   >   
   > Plastic Jesus   
   >   
   > C                        (C7)   
   > Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,   
   > F   
   > Long as I have my plastic Jesus   
   > C                             D7   
   > Riding on the dashboard of my car   
   > C   
   > Through all trials and tribulations,   
   > F   
   > We will travel every nation,   
   > C               G7             C   
   > With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.   
   >   
   >   
   >        F              C   
   > cho:  Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus   
   >        C             (D7)            G7   
   >        Riding on the dashboard of my car   
   >        C                      (C7)   
   >        Through all trials and tribulations,   
   >        F              (F#dim7)   
   >        We will travel every nation,   
   >        C               G7            C   
   >        With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.   
   >   
   > --   
   > Music&  Poetry of Will Dockery&  Friends:   
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   Yeah I remember that one...and I probably was thinking about it when I   
   wrote that little piece of doggerel   
      
   One of these days I'll get back into serious stuff   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)