I know you already earmarked these as inappropriate, but they're really not. You really don't think that this song straddles the line between genuine respect for gospel and totally sarcastic parody. First, Norman Greenbaum is a Jewish dude. Second, true 'nuff... no one has ever lived a life free from sin, unless you're a believer and think that Jesus wasn't born in "original sin." (I guess there's parthenogenesis, though I don't know if anyone has ever proven that a person has been born parthenogenetically.) There are silly lines in the song like... "I'm gonna go to the place that's the best." This is essentially about the way that sanctimonious true believers think. "I'm so fucking wonderful that when I die I'm going straight to heaven... no if's, and's or but's... because I've lived a life free from iniquity... a life IN Jesus"... whatever IN Jesus is supposed to mean. Plus, I mean... the song has that raunchy blues head with the famous distorted/reverbed whammy lick. By many, the blues was considered "the Devil's music," particularly among the folks of the MI Delta, where the blues was born. It's a wonderful song... totally dated... totally iconic... great beat... great black-girl backup vocals... silly lyrics... and puts a smile on your face. And no... I am not Norman Greenbaum's mother. Heh.

Nobody was sinless except Jesus. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 3:23. There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not. Ecclesiastes 7:20. There is none righteous, no not one. Romans 3:10. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no not one. Romans 3:12