Overture
Heaven on Their Minds
REm REm FA SOL
Judas: My mind is cleared now - at last all too well
FA SOL REm
I can see where we all soon will be
REm FA SOL
If you strip away the myth from the man
FA SOL REm
You will see where we all soon will be
REm
Jesus !
REm
You've started to believe
MIm
The things they say of you
FA
You really do believe
SOL REm
This talk of God is true
And all the good you've done
Will soon get swept away
You've begun to matter more
Then the things you say
REm FA
Listen Jesus I don't like what I see
REm SOL
All I ask is that you listen to me
SIb DO FA
And remember - I've been your right hand man all along
REm
You have set them all on fire
SIb FA
They think they've found the new Messiah
RE/LA LA SIb REm
And they'll hurt you when they find they're wrong
I remember when this whole thing began
No talk of God then - we called you a man
And beleive me - my admiration for you hasn't died
But every word you said today
Gets twisted round some other way
And they'll hurt you if they'll think you've lied
SIb FA SOLm REm
Nazareth your famous son should have stayed a great unknown
SOLm REm/LA
Like his ofther carving wood
LA REm
He'd have made good!
Tables, chairs and oaken chests should have suited Jesue best
He'd have caused nobody's harm
No one alarm!
I remember when this whole thing began
No talk of God then - we called you a man
And beleive me - my admiration for you hasn't died
But every word you said today
Gets twisted round some other way
And they'll hurt you if they'll think you've lied
Nazareth your famous son should have stayed a great unknown ...
Listen Jesus to the warning I give,
Please remember that I want us to live
But it's sad to see our chances weakened with ev'ry hour
All your followers are blind,
Too much heaven on their minds
SIb
It was beautiful but now it's sour,
Dm Bbmaj7 Repeat & Fade
Yes it's all gone so sour ...
What's the Buzz
Bethany, Friday night
SIbm
Apostles: What's the buzz ? Tell me what's happening ?
Eb major!
What's the buzz ? Tell me what's happening ?
Jesus: Why should you want to know ?
Don't you mind about the future,
Don't you try to think ahead
Save tomorrow for tomorrow,
Think about today instead
Apostles: What's the buzz ? Tell me what's happening ?
Jesus: I could give you facts and figures -
I could give you plans and forecasts
Even tell you where I'm going -
Apostles: When do we ride into Jerusalem ?
Jesus: Why should you want to know ?
Why are you obsessed with fighting
Times and fates you can't defy ?
If you knew the path we're riding
You'd understand it less than I !
Apostles: What's the buzz ? Tell me what's happening ?
Mary M. : Let me try to cool down your face a bit ...
Jesus: That feels nice, so nice ...
Mary that is good - while you prattle through your supper
Where and when and who and how
She alone has tried to give me
What I need right here and now !
Apostles: What's the buzz ? Tell me what's happening ?
Strange Thing Mystifying
SOL SOL7 DO DOm
Judas: It seems to me a strange thing mystifying
SOL DO DOm SOL
That a man like you can waste his time on women of her
kind !
Yes I can understand that she amuses,
But to let her stroke you, kiss your hair is hardly in your line.
DO RE SOL
It's not that I object to her profession
DO SOL DO SOL
But she doesn't fit in well with what you teach and say
It doesn't help us if you're inconsistent
They only need a small excuse to put us all away.
FA DO SOL
It's not that I object to her profession
FA DO FA DO
But she doesn't fit in well with what you teach and say
FA DO SOL
It doesn't help us if you're inconsistent
FA DO FA SOL
They only need a small excuse to put us all away )
Jesus: Who are you to criticise her ?
Who are you to despise her ?
Leave her, Leave her, let her be now
Leave her, Leave her, she's with me now
If you slate is clean - then you can throw stones
If you slate is not - then leave leave her alone
I'm amazed that man like you can be so shallow,
thick and slow
There's not a man among you who knows or cares
if I come or go
All (save Judas): No you're wrong ! You're very wrong !
How can you say that ?
Jesus: Not one - not one of you !
Everything's alright
RE LA
Mary M. : Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to
SIm SOL
Problems that upset you ah, don't you know
RE SOL LA RE SOL LA
Ev'rything's alright, yes, ev'rything's fine
RE SOL LA RE SOL
And we want you to sleep well tonight
LA RE SOL LA RE SOL
Let the world turn without you tonight
LAsus RE SOLm DOm SOLm LAm RE
If we try we'll get by so forget all about us tonight.
RE SOL LA RE SOL LA
Apostles' women: Ev'rything's alright, yes, ev'rything's alright, yes
MI SI7
Mary M. : Sleep and I shall soothe you, calm you and anoit you
DO#m LA SI7
Myrth for your hot forehead ah, then you'll feel
MI LA SI MI LA SI
Ev'rything's alright, yes, ev'rything's fine
MI LA SI MI LA SI
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
MI LA SI MI LA
For the fire in your head and feet
SIsus MI LAm
Close your eyes, close your eyes
MIm LAm SIm MI LA SI
And relax think of nothing tonight.
MI LA SI MI LA SI
Apostles' women: Ev'rything's alright, yes, ev'rything's alright, yes
MIm RE DO RE
Judas: Woman your fine ointment - brand new and expensive
MIm RE MI DO RE MIm MIm RE
Could have been saved for the poor.
MIm
Why has it been wasted ? We could have raised maybe
Three hundred silver pieces or more.
LAm RE SOL DO
People who are hungry, people who are starving
MIm SI SI SI SI7sus4 SI7
Matter more than your feet and hair !
Mary M. : Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to
Problems that upset you ah, don't you know
Ev'rything's alright, yes, ev'rything's fine
And we want you to sleep well tonight
Let the world turn without you tonight
If we try we'll get by so forget all about us tonight.
Apostles' women: Ev'rything's alright yes ev'rything's alright
yes
Jesus: Surely you're not saying we have the resources
To save the poor from their lot ?
There will be poor always, pathetic'lly struggling -
Look at the good things you've got !
Think ! While you still have me
Move ! While you still see me
You'll be lost, you'll be so sorry when I'm gone
Mary M. : Sleep and I shall soothe you, calm you and anoit you
Myrth for your hot forehead ah then you'll feel
Ev'rything's alright yes ev'rything's fine
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
For the fire in your head and feet
Close your eyes, close your eyes
And relax think of nothing tonight
Close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes
All: Ev'rything's alright, yes, ev'rything's alright, yes
The Jesus Must Die
Jerusalem, Sunday
FAm7/
Priest I: Good Caiaphas, the council waits for you,
The pharisees and priests are here for you!
FAm7/ SOL# FAm
Caiaphas: Ah gentlemen, you know why we are here
SOL# FAm
We've not much time and quite a problem here
Mob (outside): Hosanna ! Superstar ! Fm
SI FAm SI
Annas: Listen to that howling mob of blockheads in the street !
FAm SI FAm
A trick or two with lepers and the whole town on it's
feet
FAm
All: He's dangerous !
DO FA
Mob (outside): Jesus Christ Superstar -
SIb FA DO
Tell us that you've who they say you are
FAm
All: He's dangerous !
FAm
Priest 2: The man is in town right now to whip us some support
Priest 2: A rabble rousing mission that I think we must abort
All: He's dangerous !
Mob (outside): Jesus Christ ! Superstar !
All: He's dangerous !
Priest 2: Look, Caiaphas - they're right outside our yard
Priest 3: Quick, Caiaphas - go call the Roman guard...
Caiaphas: No wait - we need a more permonent solution to our
problem...
FAm DO DO7 FAm
Annas: What then to do about Jesus of Nazareth
SOL# SI MIb SOL#
Miracle wonderman - hero of fools ?
Priest 2: No riots, no army, no fighting, no slogans ...
Caiaphas: One thing I'll say for him: Jesus is cool.
Priest 1: We dare not leave him to his own devices
His half-whitted fans will get out of control
Priest 3: But how can we stop him ? His glamour increases
By leaps every minute - he's top of the poll .
DO# SOL#
Caiaphas: I see bad things arising
- SIbm FAm DO DO#
The crowd crown him King which the Romanes would ban
DO# SOL#
I see blood and destruction
SIbm FAm DO7 FAm
Our elimination because of one man
DO7 FAm
Blood and destruction because of one man !
SOL# SIb MIb SOL#
All: Because, because, because of one man
Caiaphas: Our elimination because of one man
Blood and destruction because of one man
DO FAm
All: Because, because, because of one, 'cause of one,
'cause of one man .
Priest 3: What then to do about this Jesusmania ?
Annas: How do we deal with the carpenter king ?
Priest 3: Where do we start with a man who is bigger
Then John was when John did his Baptism thing ?
Caiaphas: Fools ! You have no perception
The stakes we are gambling are frighteningly high !
We must crush him completely -
So like John before him, this Jesus must die
For the sake of the nation this Jesus must die
All: Must die, must die, this Jesus must die
Caiaphas: So like John before him, this Jesus must die
All: Must die, must die, this Jesus must, Jesus must,
Jesus must die !
* SIDE TWO *
Hosanna
SOL DO SOL
Crowd: Hosanna Hey Sanna Sanna Sanna Ho
SIb MIb
Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
MIbm MIm
Hey JC, JC won't you smile at me ?
DOm SOL# RE SOL
Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar
DOm SI/FA# DOm SI/FA#
Caiaphas: Tell the rabble to be quiet we anticipate a riot
SIb SIb5
This common crowd is much too loud
Tell the mob who sing your song that they are fools
and they are wrong
They are a curse, they sould disperse !
Hosanna heysanna sanna sanna Ho
Sanna hey sanna Hosanna !
Hey,JC, JC, won't you DIE for me
Sanna HoSanna Hey, Super Star !
SOL RE SOL
Jesus: Why waste your breath moaning at the croud ?
SIb FA SIb SOLm
Nothing can be done to stop the shouting !
REm LA RE LA
If every tonque was still the noise would still continue
RE LA RE RE/DO SIm RE7/LA
The rockes and stones themselves would start to sing:
Crowd (with Jesus): Hosanna Hey Sanna Sanna Sanna Ho
Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
Hey JC, JC won't you fight for me ?
Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar
Simon Zealotes
Crowd: Christ, you know I love you
Did you see I waved ?
I beleive in you and God
So tell me that I'm saved
Jesus I am with you
Touch me touch me Jesus
Jesus I am on your side
Kiss me kiss me Jesus
Simon: Christ, what more do you need to convince you
That you've made it and you're easily as strong
As the filth from Rome who rape our country
And who've terrorized our people for so long ?
Crowd: Christ, you know I love you
Did you see I waved ?
I beleive in you and God
So tell me that I'm saved
Jesus I am with you
Touch me touch me Jesus
Jesus I am on your side
Kiss me kiss me Jesus
Simon:
LAm SOL FA
There must be over fifty thousand
LAm SOL FA
Screaming love and more for you
LAm SOL FA
And everyone of fifty thousand
LAm SOL FA
Would do whatever you ask him to
FA SOL LAm
Keep them yelling their devotion
FA SOL LAm
But add a touch of hate at Rome
FA SOL DO LAm
You will rise to a greater power
FA SOL LAm
We will win ourselves a home
FA SOL LAm
You'll get the power and the glory
FA SOL LAm
For ever and ever and ever
( Amen! Amen! )
Poor Jerusalem
Cm B F (Ab?)
Jesus: Neither you Simon, nor the fifty thousand
Nor the Romans, nor the Jews,
Nor Judas, nor the Twelve, nor the Priests,
nor the Scribes,
Nor doomed Jerusalem itself
Ebm(Cm?)B F
Understand what power is,
Understand what glory is,
Understand at all
FA
Understand at all...
SIbm MIbm SOL# SIbm
If you knew all that I knew,my poor Jerusalem
FA# FA SIbm
You'd see the truth but you close your eyes
FA SIbm
But you close your eyes
While you live your troubles are many, poor Jerusalem
To conquer death you only have to die,
You only have to die
Pilate's Dream
Pontius Pilate's house, Monday
SIbm LA+ SIbm7 MIbm SOL#m
Pilate: I dreamed I met a Galilean -
SIbm
A most amazing man
DOb FA7 FA7+ FA#
He had that look you very rarely find -
MIbm6 FA7 SIbm
The haunting hunted kind
I ask him to say what had happened
How it all began
I asked again - he never said a word
As if he hadn't heard.
SIb SIb7 MIbm MIbm7
And next the room was full of wild and angry men
SOL# SOL#7
They seemed to hate this man -
DO# /FA /MIb /DO# /DO
They fell on him and then
FA7
They disappeared again
Then I saw thousands of millions
Crying for this man .
And then I heard them mentioning my name
And leaving me the blame
The Temple
MoneyLenders and Merchants:
SIbm
Roll on up - for my price is down
Come on in - for the best in town
DO#m
Take your pick of the finest wine
SIbm
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
Roll on up - for my price is down
Come on in - for the best in town
Take your pick of the finest wine
Lay your bets on this bird of mine
SIbm
Name your price I got everything
SIbm
Come and buy it's all going fast
DO#m
Borrow each on the finest terms
SIbm
Hurry how while stocks still last
Jesus: My temple should be a house of prayer
But you have made it a den of thieves
Get out ! GET OUT !
SIbm SIbmaj7 SIbm7
My time is almost through
DO#m DO#m7
Little left to do ...
SOL# SOL#7 DO#
After all I've tried for three years
FA FA7 FA SIbm
Seems like thirty, seems like thirty ...
Crowd: See my eyes I can hardly see
See me stand I can hardly work
I believe you can make me whole
See my tongue I can hardly talk
See my skin I'm a mess of blood
See my legs I can hardly stand
I believe you can make me well
See my purse I'm a poor man
Will you touch will you mend me Christ
Will you touch will you heal me Christ
Will you kiss you can cure me Christ
Won't you kiss won't you pay me Christ
Jesus: There's too many of you - don't push me
There's too little of me - don't, stop crowd me
Heal yourselves !
Everything's alright
Mary M. : Try not to get
worried, try not to turn on to Problems that upset you,
well, don't you know
Everything's alright, yes, everythings fine
Jesus: And I think I shall sleep well tonight,
Let the world turn without me tonight
Mary M. : Close your eyes, close your eyes
And forget all about us tonight
I don't Know How to Love Him
RE SOL RE LA
RE SOL RE SOL RE
Mary M. : I don't know how to love him
SOL SOL6 SOL LA RE
What to do how to move him
RE LA RE LA
I've been changed yes really changed
FA#m7 SIm FA#m7 SIm
In this past few days when I've seen myself
SOL RE MIm MIm7 LA LA7
I seem like someone else
RE
I don't know how to take this
I don't see why he woos me
He's a man he's just a man
And I've had so many men before
In very many ways ...
He's just one more
RE SOL FA#7 SIm
Should I bring him down, should I scream and shout
SIm/LA SOL RE/LA
Should I speak of love, let my feelings out
DO SOL RE
I never thought I'd come to this -
SOL RE LA
What's it all about ?..
RE
Don't You think it's rather funny
I should be in this position
I'm the one who's always been
So calm so cool, no lovers fool
Running every show ...
He scares me so
I never thought I'd come to this -
What's it all about
Yet if he said he loved me
I'd be lost I'd be frightened
I couldn't cope just couldn't cope
I'd turn my head I'd back away
I wouldn't want to know ...
He scares me so !
I want him so,
I love him so ...
Damned For All Time
Judas: Now if I help you it matters that you see
These sordid kind of things are coming hard to me
It's taken me some time to work out what you do
I weighed the whole thing up before I came to you
I have no thought at all about my own reward
I really didn't come here of my own accord
Just don't say I'm
Damned for all time
I came because I had to I'm the one who saw
Jesus controlled it now jyst like he did before.
And further more I know that Jesus think so too
Jesus wouldn't mind that I was here with you
I have no thought at all about my own reward
I really didn't come here of my own accord
Just don't say I'm
Damned for all time
Annas, you're a friend, a wordly man and wise,
Caiaphas, my friend I know your simpathise .
Why are we the propherts ? Why are we the ones ?
Who see the sad solution - know what must be done
I have no thought at all about my own reward
I really didn't come here of my own accord
Just don't say I'm
Damned for all time
Blood Money
Annas: Cut the protesting, forget the excuses,
We want information get, up off the floor
Caiaphas: We have the papers, we need to arrest him
You know his movement - we know the law
Annas: Your help in this matter won't go unrewarded
Caiaphas: We'll pay you in silver - cash on the nail !
We just need to know where the soldiers can find him
Annas: With no crowd around him
Caiaphas: Then we can't fail.
Judas: I don't need your blood money !
Caiaphas: Oh that doesn't matter our expenses are good .
Judas: I don't want your blood money !
Caiaphas: But you might as well take it - we think that you
should .
Annas: Think of the things you can do with that money -
Chose any charity give to the poor
Caiaphas: We've noted your motives - we've noted your feelings
Annas: This isn't blood money - it's a fee nothing,
Fee nothing, fee nothing more
Judas: Oh Thursday night you'll find him where you want him
Far from the crowd in Garden of Gethsemane
Choir: Well done, Judas,
Good old Judas...
The Last Supper
Thusday night
SOL RE MIm SOL/RE
Apostles: Look at all my trials and tribulations
DO SOLsus/SI LAm RE
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
SOL SI7/FA# MIm SOL7/RE SOL9/RE
Don't disturb me now I can see the answers
SOL7 SOL9 DO DOmaj RE9 RE7 SOL
Till this evening, in this morning life is fine.
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle
Knew that I would make it if I tried
Then when we retire we can write the gospels
So they'll still talk about us when we've died
SIbm
Jesus: The end ...
SIbm7+ SIbm7 SIbm6 SIbmmaj7 SIbm
Is just a little harder when brought about by friends
SIbm FA SIbm/DO# MIbm MIbm6 SIbm/DO#
For all you care this wine could be my blood
SIbm FA SIbm/DO# MIbm MIbm6 SIbm/DO#
For all you care this bread could be my body
DO#
The end !
SOL#
This is my blood you drink
FA#6 FA
This is my body you eat
SIbm MIbm7 FA7-9 SIbm
If you would remember me when you eat and drink ...
SIbm SOL# SIbm/DO# SOL#
I must be mad thinking I'll be remembe'ed - yes
SIbm/FA FA#9 FA# SIbm
I must be out of my head !
Look at your blank faces ! My name will mean nothing
Ten minutes after I'm dead !
MIbm SOL#
One of you denies me !
DO# FA#
One of you betrays me -
SI SImaj7
Apostles: ( Not I ! Who would ! Impossible ! )
MIbm SOL# DO# FA#
Jesus: Peter will deny me in just a few hours
B Bmaj7 B till "Hurry you fool..."
Three times will deny me - and that's not all I see
One of here dining, one of my twelve chosen
Will leave to betray me -
Judas: Cut out the dramathics ! You know very well who -
Jesus: Why don't you go do it ?
Judas: You want me to do it !
Jesus: Hurry they are waiting
Judas: If you knew why I do it ...
Jesus: I don't care why you do it
Judas: To think I admired you
For now I despise you
Jesus: You liar - you Judas
Judas: You want me to do it !
What if I just stayed here
And ruined your ambition ?
Christ you deserve it !
Jesus: Hurry you fool, hurry and go,
Save me your speaches, I don't want to know -
GO !
Apostles: Look at all my trials and tribulations
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
What's that in the
bread it's gone to my head
Till this morning is this
evening life is fine
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle
Knew that I would make it if I tried
Then when we retire we can write the gospels
So they'll still talk about us when we've died
Judas: Em C
You said pathetic man - see where you've brought us to
Am H7
Our ideals die around us all because of you
MIm
And now the saddest cut of all -
DO
Someone has to turn you in
Am H7
Like a common criminal, like a wounded animal
MIm
A jaded mandarin
DO
A jaded mandarin
Am H7
A jaded jaded ... faded mandarin
MIm DO LAm
Jesus: Get out! They're waiting! Get out!
H7
They're waiting for you
Judas: Em G
Every time I look at you I don't understand
LA MIm
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
MIm SOL LA MIm
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned -
Apostles: Look at all my trials and tribulations
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
Don't disturb me now I can see the answers
Till this evening in this morning life is fine
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle
Knew that I would make it if I tried
Then when we retire we can write the gospels
So they'll still talk about us when we've died
Jesus: Will no-one stay awake with me ?
Peter ? John ? James ?
Will none of you wait with me ?
Peter ? John ? James ?
Gethsemane (I only want to say)
SIbm SIbm/SOL# SIbm/FA# SIbm/FA
Jesus: I only want to say
MIbm MIbm/DO# MIbm/DO MIbm/SIb
If there is a way
SOL# LAsus SOL# DO#sus DO# FA FA+ FA SIbmsus
Take this cup a - way from me for I don't want to taste -
SIbm/DO#
It's poison
FA# SIbm/FA
Feel it burn me, I have changed
DO7 FA FA+ FA7 FA
I'm not as sure as when we star - ted.
SIbm SIbm+7 SIbm7 SIbm6
Then I was inspired
MIbm MIbm/DO# MIbm/DO MIbm/SIb
Now I'm sad and tired
SOL# SOL#sus SOL#7 DO#sus DO#/FA DO#9 DO# FA FA+ FA7
Listen sure - ly I've ex - cu - ded expectations
SIbmsus SIbm9 SIbm/DO# FA#
Tried for three years seems like thirty
SIbm/FA FA SIbm
Could you ask as much from any other man ?
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
But if I die
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
See the Saga through and do the things you ask of me
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
Let them hate me, hit me, hurt me, nail me to their tree
Bbm Eb major!
I'd wanna know I'd wanna know my God
SIbm MIb
I'd wanna see I'd wanna see my God
Why I should die ?
Would I be more noticed than I ever was before ?
Would the things I've said and done matter any more ?
I'd have to know I'd have to know my lord
I'd have to see I'd have to see my lord
But if I die what will be my reward ?
I'd have to know I'd have to know my lord
Why I should die ?
Can't you show me now that I wouldn't be
killed in vain ?
Show me just a little your omnipresent brain
Show me there's a reason for your wanting me to die
You're far to keen on where and how and
not so hot on why
Alright I'll die !
Just watch me die !
See how I die !
Then I was inspired
Now I'm sad and tired
After all I've tried for three years seems
like ninety why then am I
Scared to finish what I started, what you started
I didn't start it
God thy will is hard
But you hold every card
I will drink your cup of poison nail me to the
cross and break me,
Bleed me, beat me, kill me, take me now -
before I change my mind !..
The Arrest
SIbm SIbm6
Judas: There he is ! They're all asleep - the fools !
SIbm SIbm/DO# SIbm/FA
Jesus: Judas - must you betray me with a kiss !
SIbm
Peter: What's the buzz ? Tell me what's happening
SIbm
Peter and Apostles: What's the buzz ? Tell me what's happening
MIb
Hang on lord we've gonna fight for you
Bbm /Ab /F /Eb /Db /BbJesus:
Put a - way you -r sword !
SIbm SIbm/DO# MIb
Don't you know that it's all over ?
SIbm
It was nice but now it's gone
MIb
Why are you obsessed with fighting ?
SIbm
Stick to finish from now on
SIbm
Crowd: Tell me Christ how you feel tonight
Do you plan to put up a fight
MIbm
Do you feel that you've had the breaks ?
SIbm
What would you say were your big mistakes ?
Do you think that you may retire ?
Did you think you would get much higher ?
How do you view your coming trial ?
Have you men proved at all worth while ?
Come with us to see Caiaphas
You'll just love the High Priest's house
You'll just love seeing Caiaphas
You'll just die in the High Priest's house
Come on God this is not like you
Let us know what you're gonna do
You know what your suppoters feel
You'll escape in the final real
Tell me Christ how you feel tonight
Do you plan to put up the fight?
Do you feel that you've had the breaks?
What would you say were your big mistakes?
Come with us to see Caiaphas
You'll just love the High Priest's house
You'll just love seeing Caiaphas
You'll just die in the High Priest's house
Now we have him! Now we have got him!
SIbm MIbm SOL#
Caiaphas: Jesus you must realise the serious charges facing you
DO# FA# SI
You can, you're the son of God in all your handouts -
FA SIbm
Well, is it true ?
Jesus: That's what you say - you say that I am
Annas: There you have it, gentlemen -
what more evidence do we need ?
Judas thank you for the victim - stay a while and you'll
see him bleed !
Crowd: Now we have him ! Now we've got him !
Take him to Pilate !
Peter's Denial
SOL SOL7 DO DOm
Maid by the Fire: I think I've seen you somewhere - I remember
DO SOL DO SOL DO DOm
You were with that man they took away I recognize
SOL
your face
Peter: You're got the wrong man, lady, I don't know him
And I wasn't where he was tonight - never near the place
FA DO
GSoldier: Thats strange for I am sure I saw you with him
FA DO FA SOL
You were right by his side and yet you denied -
FA DO SOL
Peter: I tell you I was never ever with him------
FA DO FA SOL
Old Man: But I saw you too - it looked just like you
Peter: I don't know him !
LAm LAm7 FA
Mary M. : Peter - don't you know what you have said,
DO LAm
You've done and cut him dead
Peter: I had to do it, don't you see ?
Or else they'd go for me.
Mary M. : It's what he told us you would do
I wonder how he knew ...
Pilate and Christ
Friday
Pilate: Who is this broken man cluttering up my hallway ?
Who is this unfortunate ?
Soldier: Someone Christ - King of the Jews
Pilate: Oh so this is Jesus Christ I'm really quite suprised
You look so small - not a king at all
We are know that you are knews - but are you king ?
King of the Jews ?
Jesus: That's what you say
Pilate: What do you mean by that ?
That is not an answer
You're deep in trouble, friend -
Someone Christ - King of the Jews
How can someone in your state be so cool about your fate
An amazing thing - this silent king
Since you come from Galilea then need not come to me
You're Herod's race ! You're Herod's case !
Crowd: Hosanna Hey Sanna Sanna Sanna Ho
Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
Hey JC, JC please explain to me ?
You had everything where is it now ?
King Herod's Song
SIm RE SOL RE RE RE/DO# SIm
Herod: Jesus I am overjoyed to meet you face to face
SIm RE SOL RE
You've been getting quite a name all around the place.
Bm Gbm (!) G D
Healing cripples raising from the dead
MIm/SOL /FA# /MI /RE /DO# /SI LA LA7
And now I understand you're God at least that's what you've said
RE MI
So you are the Christ you're the great Jesus Christ
LA
Prove to me that you've divine -
RE /DO# /SI LA /SOL /FA#
change my wa - ter in - to wine.
LA7/MI RE MI
That's all you need do and I'll know it's all true
LA LA7 LA RE
Come on, King of the Jews !
Jesus you just won't believe the hit you've made round here
You are all we talk about the wonder of the year
Oh what a pity if it's all a lie
Still I'm sure that you can rock the cynics if you try
So you are the Christ you're the great Jesus Christ
Prove to me that you're no fool - walk across my swimming pool
If you do that for me I'll let you go free
Come on, King of the Jews !
I only ask things I'd ask any superstar
What is it that you have got that puts you where you are?
I'm waiting yes I'm a captive fan
I'm dying to be shown that you are not just any man
So if you are the Christ yes the great Jesus Christ
Feed my household with this bread, you can do it - on you head !
Or has somthing gone wrong ? Why do you take so long ?
Come on, King of the Jews !
Hey ! Aren't you scared of me, Christ ? Mr. Wonderful Christ !
You're a joke, you're not the lord! You're nothing but a fraud
Take him away - his got nothing to say
Get out you, King of the Jews ! Get out of my life !
Judas' Death
Judas: My God ! I saw him - he looked three-quaters dead !
And he was so bad I had to turn my head
You beat him so hard that he was bent and lame
And I know who everybody's gonna blame
I don't believe he knows I acted for our good
I'd save to him all this suffering if I could
Don't believe... our good... save him... if I could...
FAm DO FAm
Priest 3: Cut the confessions forget the excuses
SOL# SIb MIb SOL#
I don't understand why you're filled with remorse
All that you've said has come true with a vengeance
The mob turned against him - you backed the right horse
Caiaphas: What you have done will be saving of Israel
You'll be remember'd forever for this
And not only that you've been paid for your efforts
Pretty good vages for one little kiss
Judas: Christ ! I know you can hear me
But I only did what you wanted me too
Christ ! I'd sell out the nation
For I have been saddled with the murder of you
I have been spattled with innocent blood,
I shall be dragged through the slime and the mud.
I have been spattled with innocent blood,
I shall be dragged through the
slime and the slime and the slime and the mud.
I don't know how to love him
I don't know why he moves me
He's a man - he's just a man
He is not a King - he is just the same
As anyone I know
He scares me so
When he's cold and dead will he let me be ?
Does he love,does he love me too ? Does he care for me ?
My mind is in darkness now - My God, I'm sick
I've been used and you knew ah, all the time
God ! I'll never ever knows why you chose me for your crime
For your foul bloody crime
You have murdered me ! You have murdered me !
Choir: Poor old Judas
So long, Judas
Trial Before Pilate (including the 39 lashes)
Pilate: And so the King is once again my guest
And why is this ? Was Herod unimpressed ?
Caiaphas: We turn to Rome to sentence Nazareth
We have no law to put a man to death
We need him crusified - it's all you have to do
We need him crusified - it's all you have to do
Pilate: Talk to me Jesus Christ
You have been brought here - manacled,
Beaten by your own people -
Do you have the first idea why you deserve it ?
Listen King of the Jews
Where is your kingdom ?
Look at me - am I a Jew ?
Jesus: I have got no kingdom in this world -
I'm through, through, through
Mob: Talk to me Jesus Christ
Jesus: There maybe a kingdom for me somewhere - if I only knew
Pilate: Then you're a King ?
Jesus: It's you that say I am
I look for truth and find that I get damned
Pilate: But what is truth ? Is truth unchanging law ?
We both have truths - are mine the same of your ?
Mob: Crusify him ! Crusify him !
Pilate: What do you mean - you'd crusify your King ?
Mob: We have no King but Caesar !
Pilate: He's done no wrong - no not the slightest thing
Mob: We have no King but Caesar ! Crusify him !
Pilate: I see no reason - I find no evil
This man is harmless so why does he upset you ?
He's just misguided - thinks he's important
But to keep you vultures happy I shall flog him
Mob: Crusify him ! Crusify him !
Thirty nine lashes
Pilate: Where are you from Jesus ? What do you want Jesus ?
Tell me
You're got to be careful - you could be dead soon -
could well be
Why do you not speak when I have your life in my hands
How can you stay quiet ? I don't believe you understand
Jesus: You have nothing in your hands
Any power you have comes to you from the beyong
Everithing is fixed and you can't change it
Pilate: You are fool Jesus Christ how can I help you ?
Mob: Pilate, crusify him, crusify him !
Remember Caeser, you have a duty,
You'll be devoted, crusify him !
You'll be deported, you have a duty
To keep on peace, so crusify him !
Pilate: Don't let me stop and great self-destruction
Die if you want to, you, misguided martyr!
I wash my hands of your demolition
Die, if you want to, innocent puppet !
Superstar
Voise of Judas:
DO7 MIb
Everytime I look at you I don't understand
FA7 DO7
Why you let the things you did get so out of hand
DO7 MIb
You'd have managed better if you'd had it planned
FA7 DO7
Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land ?
DO7 MIb
If you'd come today you would have reached a whole nation
FA7 DO7
Israel in 4 BC had no mass communication
{C, F7, C } {C7, F7, C7}
Don't you get me wrong - I only want to know {3 times}
DO FA
Choir: Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
SIb FA DO
Who are you ? What have you sacrificed ?
Jesus Christ Surerstar
Do you think you're what they say you are ?
Voise of Judas:
Tell me what you think about your friends at the top
Who d'you think besides yourself's the pick of the crop ?
Buddah was he where it's at ? Is he where you are ?
Could Muhammed move a mountain or was that just PR ?
Did you mean to die like that ? Was that a mistake or
Did you know your messy death would be a record - breaker ?
Don't you get me wrong - I only want to know
Choir: Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ
Who are you ? What have you sacrificed ?
Jesus Christ Surerstar
Do you think you're what they say you are ?
The Crusifixion
Jesus: God forgive them - they don't know what they're doing
Who is my mother ? Where is my mother ?
My God My God why have you forgotten me ?
Oh God, I'm thirsty ...
It is finished ...
Father into your hands I commend my spirit !
Jesus Christ Superstar (alternative chords)
HEAVEN ON THEIR MINDS (Judas)
[4/4, Chords played over the Eb-Cm-Dm-Eb-Cm progression/bass riff]
REm FA SOL
My mind is clearer now at last all to well
FA SOL REm
I can see where we all soon will be
REm FA SOL
If you strip away the myth from the man
FA SOL REm
You will see where we all soon will be
REm MIm
Jesus! You've started to believe the things they say of you
FA SOL REm
You really do believe this talk of God is true
REm MIm
And all the good you've done will soon get swept away
FA SOL REm
You've begun to matter more than the things you say
REm FA
Listen Jesus I don't like what I see
REm SOL
All I ask is that you listen to me
SIb DO FA LA
And remember I've been your right-hand man all along
REm SIb
You have set them all on fire
FA
They think they've found the new Messiah
RE/LA LA+ LA SIb REm7
And they'll hurt you when they find their wrong
REm FA
I remember when this whole thing began
REm SOL
No talk of God then we called you a man
SIb DO FA LA
And believe me my admiration for you hasn't died
REm SIb
But ev'ry word you say today
FA
Gets twisted 'round some other way
RE/LA LA+ LA SIb REm7
And they'll hurt you if they think you've lied
[in 7/8]
SIb FA SOLm REm
Nazareth your famous son should have stayed a great unknown
SOLm REm/LA LA REm
Like his father carving wood he'd have made good
SIb FA SOLm REm
Tables chairs and oaken chests would have suited Jesus best
SOLm REm/LA LA REm
He'd have caused nobody harm -- no one alarm
back to 4/4]
REm FA
Listen Jesus do you care for your race?
REm SOL
Don't you see we must keep in our place?
SIb DO FA LA
We are occupied -- have you forgotten how put down we are?
REm SIb
I am frightened by the crowd
FA
For we are getting much too loud
REm/LA LA+ LA SIb REm7
And they'll crush us if we go too far
[back to 7/8, instrumental break repeating previous 7/8 bridge]
[back to 4/4]
REm FA
Listen Jesus to the warning I give
REm SOL
Please remember that I want us to live
SIb DO FA LA
But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour
REm SIb
All your followers are blind
FA
Too much heaven on their minds
REm/LA LA+ LA SIb
It was beautiful but now it's sour
REm SIbmaj7
Yes it's all gone sour...
{Dm - Bb, jam and ramble to end}
EVERYTHING'S ALRIGHT (Mary, Jesus, Judas)
[in 5/4]
[Mary]
MI SI7 DO#m LA
Try not to get worried, try not to turn on to problems that upset you oh
SI7 MI LA SI MI
Don't you know everything's alright yes, everything's fine
LA SIsus MI LA SI MI
And we want you to sleep well tonight
LA SIsus MI LA SI MI
Let the world turn without you tonight
LA SIsus MI LAm MIm LAm SIm MI
If we try we'll get by so forget about all us tonight
LA SI MI LA SI
Everything's alright, yes, everything's fine
[Judas]
MIm RE DO RE
Woman your fine ointment -- brand new and expensive
MIm DO RE MIm
could have been saved for the poor
MIm RE DO RE
Why has it been wasted -- we could have raised maybe
MIm DO RE MIm
Three hundred silver pieces or more
LAm RE SOL DO
People who are hungry, people who are starving
MIm SI SI7sus SI7
Matter more than your feet and hair
[Mary]
MI SI7
Sleep and I shall soothe you, calm you and annoint you
DO#m LA
Myrrh for your hot forehead oh
SI7 MI LA SI MI
Don't you know everything's alright yes everything's fine
LA SIsus MI LA SI MI
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
LA SIsus MI LA SI MI
For the fire in your head and feet
LA SIsus MI LAm MIm LAm SIm MI
Close your eyes, close your eyes and relax, think of nothing tonight
LA SI MI LA SI
Everything's alright, yes, everything's fine
[Jesus]
MIm RE DO RE
Surely you're not saying we have the resources
MIm DO RE MIm
to save the poor from their lot?
MIm RE DO RE
There will be poor always, pathetically struggling
MIm DO RE MIm
Look at the good things you've got!
LAm RE
Think! while you still have me
SOL DO
Move! while you still see me
SI
You'll be lost
SIsus SI
You'll be so so sorry
SIsus SI SIsus
When I'm gone
[Mary]
MI SI7
Sleep and I shall soothe you, calm you and annoint you
DO#m LA
Myrrh for your hot forehead oh
SI7 MI LA SI MI
Don't you know everything's alright yes everything's fine
LA SIsus MI LA SI MI
And it's cool and the ointment's sweet
LA SIsus MI LA SI MI
For the fire in your head and feet
LA SIsus MI LAm MIm LAm SIm
Close your eyes, close your eyes and relax, think of nothing tonight
MI LA SI MIm
Close your eyes, close your eyes and relax (repeat, repeat, et al)
HOSANNA (Crowd, Jesus, Caiaphas)
[in 4/4]
[Crowd]
SOL RE SOL
Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
SIb MIb
Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
MIbm MIm
Hey J.C., J.C. won't you smile at me?
DOm SOL# RE SOL
Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar
[Caiaphas]
DOm SI/FA# DOm SI/FA#
Tell this rabble to be quiet we anticipate a riot
SIb SIb(b5) SIb SOL
This common crowd is much too loud
DOm SI/FA# DOm SI/FA#
Tell the mob who sing your song that they are fools and they are wrong
SIb SIb(b5) SIb SOL
They are a curse -- they should disperse
[Crowd]
SOL RE SOL
Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
SIb MIb
Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
MIbm MIm
Hey J.C., J.C. you're alright by me
DOm SOL# RE SOL DO
Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar
[Jesus]
SOL RE SOL
Why waste your breath moaning at the crowd?
SIb FA SIb SOLm
Nothing can be done to stop the shouting
REm LA RE LA
If every tongue was still the noise would still continue
RE LA RE RE/DO SIm RE7/LA
The rocks and stones themselves would start to sing
[Jesus & Crowd]
SOL RE SOL
Hosanna Heysanna Sanna Sanna Ho
SIb MIb
Sanna Hey Sanna Ho Sanna
MIbm MIm
Hey J.C., J.C. won't you fight for me?
DOm SOL# RE SOL
Sanna Ho Sanna Hey Superstar
Ending: D7 G Am D7 G
PILATE'S DREAM (Pilate)
/
SIbm MIbm SOL#7
I dreamed I met a Galilean
SIbm DOb
A most amazing man
FA7 FA7+ FA# MIbm6
He had that look you very rarely find
FA7 SIbm
The haunting, hunted kind
SIbm MIbm SOL#7
I asked him to say what had happened
SIbm DOb
How it all began
FA7 FA7+ FA# MIbm6
I asked again, he never said a word
FA7 SIbm
As if he hadn't heard
SIb SIb7
And next the room was full
MIbm SOL#
of wild and angry men
SOL#7
they seemed to hate this man
Db (tacet)
they fell on him and then
F7 (tacet)
they disappeared again
SIbm MIbm SOL#7
Then I saw thousands of millions
SIbm DOb
crying for this man
FA7 FA# MIbm6
And then I heard them mentioning my name
FA7 SIbm
And leaving me the blame
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE HIM (Mary Magdalene)
Note: The A9 in the last measure of each verse is actually an "A9sus (no
G)" Try fitting THAT over the word "else". Ah, limitations, limitations.
The chord is actually very easy to play if you use some untraditional
fingering/positioning across the progression of that line of the verse.
[in 4/4]
RE SOL RE SOL RE
I don't know how to love him
SOL SOL6 RE/LA LA
What to do, how to move him
RE/FA# LA RE
I've been changed, yes really changed
LA FA#m7 SIm FA#m7 SIm
In these past few days when I've seen myself
SOL RE/FA# MIm RE LA9
I seem like someone else
RE SOL RE SOL RE
I don't know how to take this
SOL SOL6 RE/LA LA
I don't see why he moves me
RE/FA# LA RE
He's a man, he's just a man
LA FA#m7 SIm FA#m7 SIm
And I've had so many men before
SOL RE/FA# MIm RE LA9 LA
In ve - ry ma - ny ways
SOL RE/FA# MIm7 RE
He's just one more
[PSEUDOBRIDGE]
SOL FA#7
Should I bring him down
SIm
Should I scream and shout
SIm/LA SOL
Should I speak of love
RE/LA
Let my feelings out?
DO SOL RE
I never thought I'd come to this
G D/F# Em A9 -} A
What's it all about?
RE SOL RE SOL RE
Don't you think it's rather funny
SOL SOL6 RE/LA LA
I should be in this position?
RE/FA# LA RE
I'm the one who's always been
LA FA#m7 SIm7 FA#m7 SIm7
So calm, so cool, no lover's fool
SOL RE/FA# MIm RE LA9 LA
Running every show
SOL RE/FA# MIm7 RE
He scares me so
{repeat pseudobridge, instrumental to "never thought I'd come to this..."}
RE SOL RE SOL RE
Yet if he said he loved me
SOL SOL6 RE LA
I'd be lost, I'd be frightened
RE/FA# LA RE
I couldn't cope, just couldn't cope
FA#m7 SIm7 FA#m7 SIm7
I'd turn my head, I'd back away
SOL RE/FA# MIm RE LA9 LA
I wouldn't want to know
SOL RE/FA# MIm7 RE
He scares me so
SOL RE/FA# MIm7 RE
I want him so
SOL RE/FA# MIm7 RE
I love him so
THE LAST SUPPER (Apostles)
[in 4/4]
[verse 1]
SOL RE MIm SOL/RE
Look at all my trials and tribulations
DO SOLsus/SI SOL/SI LAm RE
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
SOL SI7/FA#
Don't disturb me now
MIm SOL7/RE SOL9/RE
I can see the an - swers
SOL7 SOL9 DO DO6 DOmaj7 RE9
Till this evening is this morning
SOL RE7
Life is fine
[verse 2]
SOL RE MIm SOL/RE
Always hoped that I'd be an apostle
DO SOLsus/SI SOL/SI LAm RE
Knew that I would make it if I tried
SOL SI7/FA# MIm SOL7/RE SOL9/RE
Then when we retire we can write the gos - pels
SOL7 SOL9 DO DO6 DOmaj7 RE9 SOL
So they'll still talk a - bout us when we've died
{Jesus/Apostles/Judas interludes, verse, dialogue}
{repeat verses 1 and 2}
{More Jesus/Judas interludes}
{repeat verse 1}
[verse 3]
SOL RE MIm SOL/RE
Look at all my trials and tribulations
DO SOLsus/SI SOL/SI LAm RE
Sinking in a gentle pool of wine
SOL SI7/FA#
What's that in the bread?
MIm SOL7/RE SOL9/RE
It's gone to my he - ad
SOL7 SOL9 DO DO6 DOmaj7 RE9
Till this evening is this morning
SOL RE7
Life is fine
{repeat verse 2, end on G}
I ONLY WANT TO SAY (GETHSEMANE) (Jesus)
[in 4/4, Bb]
[verse]
SIbm SIbm/SOL# SIbm/FA# SIbm/FA
I only want to say
MIbm MIbm/DO# MIbm/DO MIbm/SIb
If there is a way
SOL# SOL#sus SOL# DO#sus DO#
Take this cup a - way from me
FA FA+ FA SIbmsus SIbm FA#
For I don't want to taste its poison -- feel it burn me
SIbm/FA DO7 FA FA+ FA7 FA
I have changed, I'm not as sure as when we started
SIbm SIbm/SOL# SIbm/FA# SIbm/FA
Then I was inspired
MIbm MIbm/DO# MIbm/DO MIbm/SIb
Now I'm sad and tired
SOL# SOL#sus SOL# DO#sus DO# FA FA+ FA
Listen, sure - ly I've exceeded expectations
SIbmsus SIbm FA#
Tried for three years -- seems like thirty
SIbm/FA FA SIbm
Could you ask as much from any other man?
[sub-verse]
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
But if I die
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
See the saga through and do the things you ask of me
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
Let them hate me, hit me, hurt me, nail me to their tree
SIbm MIb7
I'd wanna know I'd wanna know my God (x2)
SIbm MIb7
I'd wanna see I'd wanna see my God (x2)
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
Why I should die
SIbm SOL# FA# FA
Would I be more noticed than I ever was before?
SIb
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