Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

"Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam"
Song by The Vaselines
from the album Dying for It
Released	1987
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	3:31
Label	53rd & 3rd
Songwriter(s)	Eugene Kelly, Frances McKee

"Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam"
Song by Nirvana
from the album MTV Unplugged in New York
Released	1 November 1994
Recorded	18 November 1993 at Sony Music Studios in New York City
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:37
Label	DGC Records
Songwriter(s)	Eugene Kelly, Frances McKee
Producer(s)	Alex Coletti, Scott Litt, Nirvana
MTV Unplugged in New York track listing
13 tracks "About a Girl" "Come as You Are" "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" "The Man Who Sold the World" "Pennyroyal Tea" "Dumb" "Polly" "On a Plain" "Something in the Way" "Plateau" "Oh, Me" "Lake of Fire" "All Apologies" "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"

"Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam" is a song originally recorded by Scottish alternative band The Vaselines for their EP Dying for It. It is a parody on the Christian children's hymn, "I'll Be a Sunbeam," which has the opening line "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam."

The song was little-known outside the indie-pop scene until Nirvana recorded the song in November 1993. The song released in the album and the DVD was titled "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam" on their live acoustic MTV Unplugged in New York. The Vaselines re-released the song in 1992 on the compilation albums The Way of The Vaselines: A Complete History and All the Stuff and More. On All the Stuff and More, the title was changed slightly to "Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam".

Two more versions of this song were released on the 2004 box set With the Lights Out. This included an acoustic version recorded in Europe in 1994, along with a live electric performance on the DVD section of the box-set. Another version was released on 2011 as a bonus track on the 20th anniversary edition of Nevermind.

On the version contained on the MTV Unplugged in New York album, Kurt Cobain refers to the song as: "a rendition of an old Christian song, I think. But we do it the Vaselines' way." ^[1]

Elvis Costello uses the line "Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam" in the song "Alibi" from his 2002 album When I Was Cruel.

On the deluxe edition of their 2014 Album Bleach House, Phillip Boa And The Voodooclub released a cover of "Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam".

Notes

↑ Kurt Cobain, Nov. 18, 1993. MTV Unplugged in New York, DGC Records, released Nov. 1, 1994.

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