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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: song id request (plastic jesus)
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Date: Mon, 7-May-84 15:26:47 EDT
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Just came across this one.  Sorry to answer late.  The song
you refer to, "Plastic Jesus", was sung lo these many years ago
by Al Higgins out of New Orleans.  I first heard it in the early
50s.  I am looking at a copy of the lyrics from an old song book
at this moment.   It is a collection of folk songs from all
over the world.  Why this was considered a folksong I'll never
know, but its there.  Don't ask for the name of the book, the first
and last sections are gone.  This song is on page 140 of whatever
book it is in.  There are five verses here and the notes say that
there are dozens more which are unprintable.
T. C. Wheeler