Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!jimn From: jimn@cornell.UUCP (Jim Nesheim) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.movies Subject: Re: Cool Hand Luke -- plastic Jesus Message-ID: <3832@cornell.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 08:52:08 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.3832 Posted: Wed Aug 14 08:52:08 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 17-Aug-85 16:27:31 EDT References: <140@mtsbb.UUCP> Reply-To: jimn@cornell.UUCP (Jim Nesheim) Distribution: na Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 20 Keywords: Plastic Xref: watmath net.games.trivia:2099 net.movies:7386 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. :-)