Original Artist: Ed Rush, George Cromarty (Plastic Jesus); Greg Brown (Spring Wind)
Covering Artist: Paul Berens (vocals, guitar)
Recording location: San Francisco
I don’t care if it rains or freezes
as long as I’ve got my plastic Jesus
sitting on the dashboard of my car
it comes in colors pink and pleasant
it glows in the dark cause it’s iridescent
I’ll take it with me whenever I go far
so give me my lady Madonna
dressed in rhinestones and sitting on a
pedestal of abalone shells
driving 90 but I’m not scared
‘cause I’ve got my Virgin Mary
assuring me that I will never go to hell
All my friends are getting older,
I guess I must be too.
Without their love and kindness
I don’t know what I’d do
Oh the wine bottle’s half empty
The money’s all been spent
We’re a cross between our parents
And hippies in a tent.
Oh, Love calls like the wild birds
It’s just another day
A spring wind blew my list of things to do away.
In a mucked up lovely river
I cast my little fly
But I look at that river and I smell it and
it makes me want to cry, Oh
To clean our dirty planet
Now there’s a noble wish
And now I’m putting shoulder to the wheel
Cause I wanna catch some fish, Oh
Love calls just like the wild birds
It’s just another day
A spring blew my list of things to do away.
Source: Genius
Songwriters: Ed Rush and George Cromarty (Plastic Jesus); Greg Brown (Spring Wind)