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From: jimn@cornell.UUCP (Jim Nesheim)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.movies
Subject: Re: Cool Hand Luke -- plastic Jesus
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 08:52:08 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 14 08:52:08 1985
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In article <140@mtsbb.UUCP> gnw@mtsbb.UUCP (G.N.WEBER) writes:
>Dear North America,
>
>In the movie "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman (as Luke) plays the 
>banjo and sings a song after his mother dies.  This song opens
>with the line "Get yourself a plastic Jesus... for the dashboard
>of your car".  Also included in the song are references to "Virgin
>Mary", "sweet Madonna", and "colors pind and irridescent".  If 
>someone could tell me the name of this song and a recording of it
>I would be very happy.

	I don't know the name but I know some of the lyrics:

		I don't care if it rains or freezes,
		long as I got my plastic Jesus,
		sittin' on the dashboard of my car,
		he never slips and he never slides,
		'cause his ass is magnetized,
		sittin' on the dashboard of my car.
:-)