The Originals © by Arnold Rypens

Artist: Norman Luboff Choir & the Jimmy Boys
Author: Nellie Talbot/Edwon O. Excell
Label: Avalanche/EMI
Year: 1956

Sunday school children song.

Covers:

1988:: Vaselines [as Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam, crediting themselves (Eugene Kelly/Frances McKee) on cd All The Stuff And More]
1993:: Nirvana [as Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam; after cutting Molly's Lips, another Vaselines track (lifted from the same album)]

Elvis Costello used lyric line Maybe Jesus wants you for a sunbeam in his song Alibi from When I Was Cruel (2002).

I'LL BE A SUNBEAM