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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
Song History
Last Updated: April 28, 2021