"Sheep Go to Heaven" is a single by American alternative rock band Cake from their 1998 album Prolonging the Magic. The song's title references the parable of The Sheep and the Goats from Chapter 25 of the Gospel of Matthew.

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"Sheep Go to Heaven"
Single by Cake
from the album Prolonging the Magic
Released	1999
Recorded	1998
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	4:44
Label	Capricorn Records
Songwriter(s)	John McCrea
Producer(s)	Cake
Cake singles chronology
"You Turn the Screws" (1999) "Sheep Go to Heaven" (1999) "Short Skirt/Long Jacket" (2001)

Track listing

Music video

The music video for "Sheep Go to Heaven" is animated, and features members of Cake dressed as a KISS cover band, playing in a sports bar. A disgruntled employee of a greeting-card company enters the sports bar with a machete, and massacres the crowd, sending the band to Heaven. Later, the employee is convicted, executed, and sent to Hell. The video was directed by Mark Kornweibel.

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