Widespread Panic – Plastic Jesus (Guitar)

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Tab based on original tab: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/ed_rush/plastic_jesus_chords_1051351 Verses arranged according to Widespread Panic arrangement [Chorus]
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Well, I don't care if it rains or freezes,

G
Long as I have my plastic Jesus

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Riding on the dashboard of my car

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Through all trials and tribulations,

G
We will travel every nation,

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With my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
[Verse]
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Riding through the thoroughfare

G
With his nose right up there in the air

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A wreck may be ahead, but he don't mind

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Trouble coming, but he don't see

G
He just keeps his plastic eyes on me

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And any other thing that rides behind
[Verse]
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God made Christ a Holy Jew

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made Him a Christian too

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Paradoxes populate my car

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Joseph beams  nfeignied elan

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From the shaggy dash of my furlined van

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Famous cuckold in the master plan
[Verse]
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Right theres Naughty Mary, snug and smiling

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Jesus dainty and beguiling

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Knee-deep in the piling of my van

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His message clear by night or day

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My phosphorescent plastic Gay

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Simpering on the dashboard of my van
[Chorus]
        D              G
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus,

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riding on the dashboard of my car

D
Through all trials and tribulations,

G
we will travel every nation,

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with my plastic Jesus I'll go far.
[Verse]
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When I find myself in a traffic jam

G
He don't care if I say Damn

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I just let all the curses roll

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Plastic Jesus doesn't hear

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cuz he's sportin a plastic ear

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The man who invented plastic saved my soul
[Verse]
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You can buy a sweet Madonna,

G
dressed in rhinestone sitting on a

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pedestal of abalone shell

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Goin' ninety, I'm not scary,

G
'Cause I've got my Virgin Mary

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guaranteeing I won't go to Hell
[Verse]
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I don't care if it bumps or jostles

G
I got the Twelve Apostles

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Bolted to the dashboard of my car

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Don't I sew a pious mess

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Such a crowd of holiness

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Strung across the dashboard of my car
[Verse]
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I don't care if it's dark or scary,

G
I got magnetic Mary,

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ridin' on the dashboard of my car

D
I feel I'm protected amply,

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I've got the whole Holy Family,

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riding on the dashboard of my car
[Chorus]
        D              G
Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus

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Riding on the dashboard of my car

D
Once his robe was snowy white

G
Now it isn't quite so bright

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Stained by the smoke of my cigar

        D              G
Plastic Jesus, plastic Jesus,

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riding on the dashboard of my car

D
Through all trials and tribulations,

G
we will travel every nation,

D               A             D Dsus4 D
with my plastic Jesus I'll go far.