When Jesus Gets a Brand New Name

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Jim White

Michael Davis Pratt (born March 10, 1957) known professionally as Jim White, is a Southern American singer-songwriter and guitarist. White's music can be loosely described as alternative country, but veers off in different, sometimes experimental directions with occasional nods[citation needed] to Tom Waits and the literary narratives of Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Harry Crews. more »

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1997

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Damn them dogs is really smart 
Think I'd better lose the snowshoes 
Thought the skid marks on the road'd throw them off, 
But damn them dogs is smart 
And on Devil's Island of the heart, 
You can't afford to make a big mistake
You gotta plan your jail break carefully 
Very carefully!
And them crickets chirping in my hair 
They're about to drive me smack insane.
I don't know quite who put 'em there 
But everytime I hear 'em it sound just like;

When Jesus gets a brand new name! 
When Jesus gets a brand new name!

Now I'm hiding in a funky shadow 
I see a TV show through the window 
there's lawyers riding in a speedboat
They're solving cases on the ocean.
I'm going over the waterfalls 
I'm a lamb to the slaughter ya'll
Better duck because that flying thing 
Is coming back this way!
I tell you what the hay! 
Friggin A! 
A certified genius couldn't do it better.
You disagree? 
Well, that's okay, we'll notify you with a letter!

When Jesus gets a brand new name! 
When Jesus gets a brand new name!

Golden dust, golden bones, golden opportunities.
You flush 'em all down the rusty drain
Better laugh, boy, before you feel the pain.
And get yourself good and saved, 
Make sure that you are well behaved;
You should part your hair, 
You should shine your shoes,
You should say your prayers, 
You should pay your dues
you do heart surgery with a hammer 
Then you lock 'em all up in the gospel slammer
'Till there's nothing left for this corpse to say
Except "Drag my stinking butt away!"

When Jesus gets a brand new name! 
When Jesus gets a brand new name!

My friends;
Cross your fingers, cross your hearts, 
'Cause they've ripped that sucker clean apart
And don't catch my whole guitar on fire 
As you embrace the lips of my wild desire.
Now you're messing with my superstition
Hey, what about the Inquisition?!
Yeah I like 'em big, like 'em chunky, 
I like 'em pasty faced, like a superjunky.
You steal the water from the well of love, 
It'll sit in your tummy like O.J.'s glove 
So don't you give me none 
Of that dadgummed shango,
'Cause I know that it takes two to tango!

When Jesus gets a brand new name! 
When Jesus gets a brand new name!

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