Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar: Damned for all time / Blood money
[VERSION]
Lyrics, chords and chord placings based on 1973 OST
* Judas Iscariot: Carl Anderson
* Caiaphas: Bob bingham
* Annas: Kurt Yaghjian
[CHORDS]
Gm7 353333
[NOTES]
* you can swap Gm7 and Gm if you feel like it or just stay on one chord or play the main riff
* the last judas-part is an interpretation; strictly speaking there's no chords except the first Fm
[MAIN RIFF]
E |------------------------| |------------------------| |-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--x-3---|
B |------------------------| |------------------------| |-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--x-3---|
G |------------------------| |-----------------3--3---| |-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--x-3---|
D |-5-5-3-3-0-0-3-3-5--5---| |-5-5-3-3-0-0-3-3-5--5---| |-5-5-3-3-3-3-3-3-5--x-5---|
A |------------------------| |-5-5-5-5-0-0-5-5-5--5---| |-5-5-5-5-3-3-5-5-5--x-5---|
E |------------------------| or |------------------------| or |-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3--x-3---|
[INTRO]
Gm7 D G7 C F7 Gm7
[JUDAS]
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
Now if I help you, it matters that you see
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
This sordid kind of things are Coming hard to me
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
It's taken me some time to work out what to do
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
I weighed the whole thing up before I came to you
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
I had no thought at all about my own reward
Eb F7
I really didn't come here of my own accord
D G7 C F7 Gm7
Just don't say I'm
D G7 C F7 Gm7
Damned for all time!
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
I came because I had to; I'm the one who saw
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
Jesus can't control it like he did before
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
And furthermore I know that Jesus thinks so too
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
Jesus wouldn't mind that I was here with you
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
I have no thought at all about my own reward
Eb F7
I really didn't come here of my own accord
D G7 C F7 Gm7
Just don't say I'm
D G7 C F7 Gm7
Damned for all time!
D G7 C F7 Gm7
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
Annas, you're a friend, a worldly man and wise
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
Caiaphas, my friend, I know you sympathise
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
Why are we the prophets? Why are we the ones?
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
Who see the sad solution, know what must be done?
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm
I have no thought at all about my own reward
Eb F7
I really didn't come here of my own accord
D G7 C F7
Just don't say I'm
Gm7 Gm Gm7 Gm D G7 C F7 Gm7
Damned for all time!
[ANNAS]
Gm D D7 Gm
Cut the protesting, forget the excuses
Bb C F7 Bb
We want information, get up off the floor
[CAIAPHAS]
Gm D D7 Gm
We have the papers we need to arrest him
Bb C D Gm
You know his movements, we know the law
[ANNAS]
Gm D D7 Gm
Your help in this matter won't go unrewarded
[CAIAPHAS]
Bb C F7 Bb
We'll pay you in silver, cash on the nail
Gm D D7 Gm
We just need to know where the soldiers can find him
[ANNAS]
Bb C
With no crowd around him
[CAIAPHAS]
D Gm
Then we can't fail
[JUDAS]
Eb Bb
I don't need your blood money
[CAIAPHAS]
Ab Gm D Eb
Oh, that doesn't matter, our expenses are good
[JUDAS]
Eb Bb
I don't want your blood money
[ANNAS]
Ab Gm D Gm
But you might as well take it, we think that you should
[CAIAPHAS]
Gm D D7 Gm
Think of the things you can do with that money
Bb C F7 Bb
Choose any charity, give to the poor
Gm D D7 Gm
We've noted your motives, we've noted your feelings
Bb C D
This isn't blood money, it's a
[ANNAS]
D
a fee
[CAIAPHAS]
D7 Gm
a fee nothing more
[JUDAS]
Fm Bb
On Thursday night, you'll find him where you want him
F
Far from the crowds
Fm Bbm
In the garden of Gethsemane
[CROWD]
F#
Well done Judas, good old Judas