Jesus At Mcdonalds - Mojo Nixon

Jesus At Mcdonalds

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[Verso 1]
N.C.
I saw Jesus at McDonald's at midnight...,
A A E
He said he wasn't doing alright,
E A A E E A A
He said he didn't feel so fine fine fine . . .,
E E A A
Said he's about bout bout to lose his mind,
E E A A
I saw mama humping Santa Claus,
E E A A
She said it was because of menopause,
E E A A
That's why she had to have Rudolf too,
E E A A
You know your mama mama loves it too yeah let's go.
A E E A E E A E A A E
Huh, yeah just like superman said, I'm from Carolina.
 
Interlude:
E A A E
 
[Verso 2]
E E A A
I'm in love with a lady wrestler,
E E A A
You know them sneaky women do it better,
E E A A
She got me, she put me in a figure four facelock,
E E A A
I said baby baby just don't stop,
E E A A
I touched myself late last night,
E E A A
Lyin' in bed next to my wife,
E E A A
She got up she got up she started to run,
E E A A
Said she could, could not watch me come,
E E A A E E A A E
I'm comin' I'm comin' baby, I'm comin' home.
 
Interlude:
E A A E
Yeah
E A A
 
[Refrão]
E E A A
I saw Allah at an Arby's,
E E A A
I saw Moses at McDonald's,
E E A A E
I saw the Ramalama from Alabama at the barbeque pit on University,
E E A A
I saw I saw Buddha at a Burger King,
E E A A
I saw Joey at a Jack in the Box,
E E A A
I just just just just just just can't stop, yeah,
E E A A E
I saw Mother Mary at a Roberto's in Oklahoma,
E E A A E E A A E
Man I'm in a Twilight Zone zone zone zone zone.
 
[Ponte]
E E
And there I was, I woke up, I was kind of standing,
E
I was kind of someplace out where the,
E E
out where the Interstates, turn to dirt, out past the fire roads,
E E E
out past route one-four-oh,
E E A A E
down, down where the train trestles go over the graveyards,
E E E A A E
back behind the dynamo right beside route one-four-o.
E E E A A E
Yeah I'm still out by Otay Lakes Road,
E
underneath the water tower,
E E A A E E
I got a thousand watt watt watts of power,
E E A A E E
yeah I'm feeling fine, and Jesus walks up to me he says "Mojo, Mojo,
E E
I'm gonna take you some place you need to be."
E E A A E E
And I said, I said "take me Jesus!",
E E E
And Jesus took me, there we were, I looked around,
E E
I looked around and all I saw was couches,
E E
everywhere I looked I saw couches, not the kind you want to sit on,
A
but the kind you want to,
E E
the kind you want to sleep on!
E E E
You know, you know it was like these bonfires and big cauldrons on top of them,
E E
with generic yellow label,
E E A E
top rum and just bowling away, bowl bowl bowling away way way,
E
it was going everywhere,
 
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[Ponte]
E E
And the trees had these kind of beer tabs on them,
E E
and out of it was coming this strange mixture,
E E
of food, barns, gin, and Mountain Dew,
E A A E E
and I said, "I love love love love love love you!" ,
E A A E
Oh yeah I was feeling so fine, so fine,
E E
I was about to go out of my mind,
E E
I saw the entire Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker,
E E
and Muddy Waters record collection stretched before me,
E A A E
and a brand new stereo, I got a thousand watts of power,
E E A A E
I got a new car, it's got a second gear and I, I'm feeling fine,
E A A E
I ain't go to work no day job no more,
E E
cause that's not my life, that's not my wife,
E A A E
Oh cut it out with the knife!
E E A A E
So I ask Jesus, I say, "Man, like, where am I?"
E E
and Jesus kind of scratched his chin, and uh,
E E
he hadn't shaved in a while, and he said, "Uh, Mojo, Mojo...",
E E
I said "Am I at the Big Rock Candy Mountain?"
E A A E
He said, "Uh, no."
E E
I said "Am I in paradise?"
A A E
He said "No."
E E A A
I said is this like the upstairs, you know heaven?"
E
He said, "No."
E
Jesus looked up in the sky,
E E
and there was a big white thing up in the sky,
E E
and there were these kind of lines going across,
E E
and the hair on the back of my neck stood up,
E E
and Jesus said "I feel fine" cause, cause....
 
[Verso 3]
A E A E
Cause I'm down, by the power lines,
A E
That's why I feel so fine,
A E A
That's why I'm blowing my mind yeah yeah yeah,
E A E
I said I'm down down down down down by the power lines line line line lines,
A E
Feel so feel so feel so down by the power lines,
A E A
I feel, feel so fine, ain't that right Skid, oh yeah,
E A E
I said I'm down, by the power lines,
A E
I'm doing alright, okay, hey hey hey,
A E A
(Gibberish),
E A E A
I said hey my I'm down down down by the power lines,
E E A E
By the power lines I'm down by them,
A
Let's go Skid oh yeah,
E A E A A E
Oh oh oh,
E E A A E
Here we go boy
 
Outro:
E* E E7
I saw Jesus at McDonald's at midnight!
E7 E*
Great googly boogly!

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