Key: G
Introduction:
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JUDAS
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Now if I help you, it matters that you see
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This sordid kind of things are Coming hard to me
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It's taken me some time to work out what to do
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I weighed the whole thing up before I came to you
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I had no thought at all about my own reward
Eb F7
I really didn't come here of my own accord
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Just don't say I'm
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Damned for all time!
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I came because I had to I'm the one who saw
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Jesus can't control it like he did before
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And furthermore I know that Jesus thinks so too
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Jesus wouldn't mind that I was here with you
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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!
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Annas, you're a friend, a worldly man and wise
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Caiaphas, my friend, I know you sympathise
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Why are we the prophets? Why are we the ones?
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Who see the sad solution, know what must be done?
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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
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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
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In the garden of Gethsemane
CROWD
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Well done Judas, good old Judas