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Fm7/6
Priest I: Good Caiaphas, the council waits for you,
--------- The pharisees and priests are here for you!
Fm7/6 Ab Fm
Caiaphas: Ah gentlemen, you know why we are here
--------- Ab Fm
We've not much time and quite a problem here
Mob (outside): Hosanna ! Superstar !-------------- Fm
B Fm B
Annas: Listen to that howling mob of blockheads in the street !
------ Fm B Fm
A trick or two with lepers and the whole town on it's
feet
Fm
All: He's dangerous !
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C F
Mob (outside): Jesus Christ Superstar -
-------------- Bb F C
Tell us that you've who they say you are
Fm
All: He's dangerous !
---- Fm
Priest 2: The man is in town right now to whip us some support
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Priest 2: A rabble rousing mission that I think we must abort
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All: He's dangerous !
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Mob (outside): Jesus Christ ! Superstar !
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All: He's dangerous !
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Priest 2: Look, Caiaphas - they're right outside our yard
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Priest 3: Quick, Caiaphas - go call the Roman guard...
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Caiaphas: No wait - we need a more permonent solution to our
problem...
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Fm C C7 Fm
Annas: What then to do about Jesus of Nazareth
------ Ab B Eb Ab Miracle wonderman
- hero of fools ?Priest 2: No riots, no army, no fighting, no
slogans ...
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Caiaphas: One thing I'll say for him: Jesus is cool.
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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 .
Db Ab
Caiaphas: I see bad things arising
--------- Bbm Fm C Db
The crowd crown him King which the Romanes would ban
Db Ab
I see blood and destruction
Bbm Fm C7 Fm
Our elimination because of one man
C7 Fm
Blood and destruction because of one man !
Ab Bb Eb Ab
All: Because, because, because of one man
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Caiaphas: Our elimination because of one man
--------- Blood and destruction because of one man
C ...
Fm
All: Because, because, because of one, 'cause of one, 'cause of
one man .
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Priest 3: What then to do about this Jesusmania ?
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Annas: How do we deal with the carpenter king ?
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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
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Caiaphas: So like John before him, this Jesus must die
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All: Must die, must die, this Jesus must, Jesus must, Jesus must
die !
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Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber / Tim Rice