F5 Priest I: Good Caiaphas, the council waits for you, --------- The pharisees and priests are here for you! F5 Ab5 F5 Caiaphas: Ah gentlemen, you know why we are here --------- Ab5 F5 We've not much time and quite a problem here Mob (outside): Hosanna ! Superstar !-------------- F5 B5 F5 B5 Annas: Listen to that howling mob of blockheads in the street ! ------ F5 B5 F5 A trick or two with lepers and the whole town on it's feet F5 All: He's dangerous ! ---- C5 F5 Mob (outside): Jesus Christ Superstar - -------------- Bb5 F5 C5 Tell us that you've who they say you are F5 All: He's dangerous ! ---- F5 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... --------- F5 C5 C5 F5 Annas: What then to do about Jesus of Nazareth ------ Ab5 B5 Eb5 Ab5 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 . Db5 Ab5 Caiaphas: I see bad things arising --------- Bb5 F5 C5 Db5 The crowd crown him King which the Romanes would ban Db5 Ab5 I see blood and destruction Bb5 F5 C5 F5 Our elimination because of one man C5 F5 Blood and destruction because of one man ! Ab5 Bb5 Eb5 Ab5 All: Because, because, because of one man ---- Caiaphas: Our elimination because of one man --------- Blood and destruction because of one man C5 ... F5 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 ! ----
