Plastic Jesus chords by John Prine

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
G+G
I don't care if it rains or freezes
C majorC
As long as I've got my Plastic Jesus
G+G               D MajorD
Riding on the dashboard of my car,
G+G
Comes in colors pink and pleasant,
C majorC
Glows in the dark cause he’s iridescent
G+G         D MajorD           G+G
Take Him with you when you're travelling far

Chorus:
G+G       C majorC
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
G+G
Riding on the dashboard of my car
G+G
Through my trials and tribulations,
C majorC
And my travels ‘cross the nation,
G+G        D MajorD       G+G
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.

Verse:
G+G
When I'm in a traffic jam
C majorC
He don't care if I say Damn
G+G               D MajorD
I can let all sorts of curses roll
G+G
Plastic Jesus doesn't hear
C majorC
For he has a plastic ear
G+G          D MajorD        G+G
The man who invented plastic saved my soul

Alt chorus:
G+G       C majorC
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus
G+G               D MajorD
Riding on the dashboard of my car
G+G
Once his robe was snowy white
C majorC
Now it isn't quite so bright
G+G       D MajorD       G+G
Stained by the smoke of my cigar

Verse:
G+G
If I weave around at night
C majorC
And the police think I'm tight
G+G                 D MajorD
I don’t worry that they’ll find my stash
G+G
Plastic Jesus shelters me
C majorC
For His head comes off, you see
G+G      D MajorD       G+G
And voila, I have a secret flask

Alt chorus:
G+G       C majorC
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
G+G               D MajorD
Riding on the dashboard of my car
G+G
Ride with me and have a dram
C majorC
Of the blood of the Lamb
G+G       D MajorD     G+G
Plastic Jesus is a holy bar

Verse:
G+G
When my babe and I go parkin’
C majorC
Fornicating in the dark
G+G                D MajorD
I don’t have to think she’ll get PG
G+G
I have no worries and no cares
C majorC
Because the raincoat that he wears
G+G       D MajorD         G+G
Serves a dual purpose, don’t you see

Alt chorus:
G+G       C majorC
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
G+G               D MajorD
Riding on the dashboard of my car
G+G
He don’t slip and he don’t slide
C majorC
Because his ass is magnetized
G+G       D MajorD        G+G
Sittin on the dashboard of my car

Verse:
G+G
Riding home one foggy night,
C majorC
With my honey cuddled tight,
G+G                  D MajorD
I missed a curve and off the road we veered.
G+G
My windshield, it got smashed-up good,
C majorC
And my darling graced the hood.
G+G       D MajorD      G+G
Plastic Jesus, He had disappeared.

Alt chorus:
G+G       C majorC
Plastic Jesus! Plastic Jesus,
G+G                 D MajorD
No longer chides me with His holy grin.
G+G
Doctors in the X-ray room
C majorC
Found Him in my darling's womb.
G+G       D MajorD        G+G
Someday, maybe he'll be born again!

Outro:
G+G       C majorC
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus
G+G               D MajorD
Riding on the dashboard of my car
G+G
Through my trials and tribulations,
C majorC
And my travels ‘cross the nation,
G+G        D MajorD       G+G
With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.