Track 13
Bless My Car
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Bless My Car
Indian pop with sitar!
Common practice in India. We watched this being done for a new car in Mysore a couple of years ago – given the dangers of driving on Indian roads it seems like it might be a good idea!
words and music by Martin Stirrup 2017
Dm G Gsus4
There’s a spectrum, you must agree
Dm G Gsus4
From materialism to spirituality
Dm G Gsus4
Though some go searching for a mystical fix
F G
Most people treat it like a pick and mix
Though you’d expect to find me holding back
I think I’ll maybe try a different track
I know you might find this a little bizarre
But I’m gonna get someone to bless my car
D Dm F G
Bless my car - you know that it can’t think for itself
G F Dm
Bless my car - It needs a helping hand to keep it health
Dm F G
Bless my car - To keep those obstacles out of its way
G Ab A A+7
Bless my car - In the long term sure it’s bound to pay
Get me a Brahman with his sacred flame
I’ll break a coconut he’ll do the same
He’ll smear a tikka on that shining chrome
Deck it in flowers as I drive it home.
You can keep your plastic Jesus with his nodding head
Or Allah woven out of sacred thread
Don’t want no Buddha or the virgin Mary
Give me Ganesha grinning back at me