*** JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR*** by Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice All Chords and Lyrics!!!!  Last Updated - 3/21/2019 This now IS the most complete & accurate version of this on the internet! -  Robb A. Questions? Critique? Comments? Praise? Email - robb@musician.org LIST OF LATEST UPDATES   3/21/19 - Finally have started looking at this again and doing some updating for newer browsers (Real Audio not working, MIDI links need tweaked 7/28/12 - Added "Pete's Sheets" - sheet music and tab from Pete in the UK that he made for his performance of JCS with a company in England a few years ago. 5/15/09 - Added some minor chord corrections from Georges in France and found a wrong word in "Last Supper" ("Jaded Mandarin" section). 7/7/07 - Fixed some blunders in the code that made some lines all messed up. 3/27/07 - Added strumming acoustic guitar parts and Lyrics to my MIDI file for "Ev'rything's Alright". 8/1/06 - Added my MIDI file for my "Damned For All Time" to the MIDI page. 3/1/05 - Slight mix alteration on Buzz/Strange MIDI 3/9/05 - added sheet music to TWAD and CWSAP 2/18/05 - Added tablature to John 19:41 for solo guitar. Also added a MIDI file for my arrangement.
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SIDE ONE  Overture  Heaven On Their Minds  What's The Buzz  Strange Thing Mystifying  Everything's Alright  This Jesus Must Die  SIDE THREE  The Last Supper  Gethsemane (I only want to say)  The Arrest  Peter's Denial  Pilate and Christ  King Herod's Song  SIDE TWO Hosanna  Simon Zealotes  Poor Jerusalem  Pilate's Dream  The Temple  I Don't Know How to Love Him  Damned For All Time/Blood Money  SIDE FOUR Judas' Death Trial Before Pilate (incl. 39 lashes)  Superstar  The Crucifixion  John Nineteen Forty-One   PDF's of ENTIRE Chords and Lyrics !!   THIS ENTIRE PAGE - ALL TABS, Chords & Lyrics This PAGE with ALL Chords & Lyrics  This PAGE with LYRICS only  Additional Chords and Lyrics from the 1973 movie   "Could We Start Again, Please?" "Then We Are Decided"    Additional Detailed Tablature    Tablature to "Overture" Vocal improv end of "Heaven On Their Minds" Bass line to "This Jesus Must Die" Acoustic picking to "Pilates Dream" Dist. elec. guitar & flute opening to "Damned For All Time" Bass line to "Damned For All Time / Blood Money" Acoustic picking to opening of "The Last Supper"    JCS MIDI Files   NEW!  SHEET MUSIC: pdf charts for guitar from PETE in UK   "Pete's Sheets (w/tab)"   JCS sheet music in Acrobat (.pdf) files     Links to other JCS sites     Guitar Chord Finder     Real Audio Files   A Short Note About Me and This Page (Click here and Click message to close it)

*SIDE ONE*

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Click for tablature to "Overture"   
It  pretty much consists of: 
1. Trial Before Pilate, with no vocals and some chords missing (C# in climbing section) and 
    parts left out (Where are you from Jesus?  What do you want Jesus? Tell me...),then
2. The "Superstar Theme" in D (D G/D, C/D, G/D), and then
3. Distant angelic ahhs doing the melody of Judas singing "On Thursday night you'll find him where you want him" twice
4. Soft strings doing "So long Judas. Poor old Judas" 

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                     (x means to pick the muted G string)
[guitar riff] G|----7-xx8-x5-x77|----7-xx8-x5-x77| repeat &
              D|0-0-(let ring)--|0-0-(let ring)--| repeat

[Use these suggested chord forms on the opening so that the chords and the "main riff"
can be played by one person on one guitar at the same time. Let the chords ring.] 
(The very first D and G chords are mimicing VERY low voicings on Piano and used only once.
                The rest are around the 5th fret to 7th fret.
      The "®" shows notes used to play the riff at the same time)
  D*     G*         F      G      Dm     Em    D7sus
x0023x x2003x     xx0768 xx0787 xx0765 xx0787 xxo788 
||||®| ||||®|     |||®|| |||®|| |||®|o |||®|| |||®||
|||o|| |o||||     ||||o| |||||| ||||o| |||||| ||||||
||||o| ||||o|     |||o|| |||o|o |||o|| |||o|o |||o||
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[Chords shown in the opening are Piano chords played over guitar riff]
                    D*          G*   F            G
Judas:   My mind is clearer now - at last all too well
------         Dm           G              Dm    F 
         I can see where we all soon will be
       Dm                 Dm   F             G
         If you strip away the myth from the man
                  Dm           Em            F    D7sus
         You will see where we all soon will be
         Dm         D7sus
         Jesus!   >>   >>   >>  [repetitive lead line begins (see ** below)]     
                  Dm     
         You've started to believe  
               Em     
         The things they say of you 
              F  
         You really do believe
                G                 Dm
         This talk of God is true

         And all the good you've done
         Will soon get swept away
         You've begun to matter more
         Than the things you say    
               

**[repetitive lead line (below)
 fades in at "JESUS!!" and repeats until "Listen Jesus..."]
     1    2    3    4   1   2   3   4
 e|-------8-----------------------------|
 B|--8b10------10r8-6--8--8-8-----------|
 G|-----------------------------7-------|
 D|-------------------------------------|

and sometimes
     1    2    3    4   1   2   3   4
 e|-------8-----------------------------|
 B|--8b10------10r8-6--8----------------|
 G|-----------------------7-7---7-------|
 D|-------------------------------------|


[guitar covering the horn part (after "...matter more than the things you say")]
        e|--------------------|------10-11-8--10---|
        B|------10-11-8--10---|------10-11-8--10---|      |*Note: Fsus4/6 is like a      |
        G|------7--8--5--7----|------7--8--5--7----|      |Bb bar over an F bar chord.   |
        D|-0-0-(let ring)-----|-0-0-(let ring)-----|      |Then release to F and         |
                                                          |hammer-on the 3rd (Ab to A).  |
         Dm                      F          *Fsus4/6  F   |Gsus4/6 is a C bar over G bar.|
            Listen Jesus I don't like what I see          |Then release to G and         |
         Dm                       G    *Gsus4/6  G        |hammer-on the 3rd (Bb to B).  |
            All I ask is that you listen to me            |The 4/6 comps the piano parts |
         Bb              C                              F           A Asus A  
            And remember - I've been your right hand man all along
                     Dm                   Dm/C
            You have set them all on fire
         Bb                    F               *Fsus4/6  F
            They think they've found the new Messiah                        
                        Dm                 A7           BbM7       Dm9
            And they'll hurt you when they find they're wrong
            
                              BbM7                     Dm
                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  |1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8
[piano arranged for guitar] e|10-------10-------10----|8--------8--------8----|
                            B|10-------10-------------|8--------8-------------|
                            G|---12-10----12-10----10-|---10-9-----10-9-----9-|
                            
            I remember when this whole thing began
            No talk of God then - we called you a man
            And believe me - my admiration for you hasn't died
            But every word you say today
            Gets twisted 'round some other way
            And they'll hurt you if they'll think you've lied
            
                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  |1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8
[piano arranged for guitar] e|6--------6--------6-----|5--------5--------5----|
                            B|6--------6--------------|5--------5-------------|
                            G|---9--7-----9--7-----7--|---7--5-----7--5-----5-| 

[in 7/8]   |1  2  3   4    5  6   7  |1    2    3    4     5    6   7   |
            Bb             F         |Gm                   Dm 
            Naza-reth your famous son should have stayed a great unknown
            Gm              Dm/A
            Like his father carving wood
            A7                  Dm
            He'd have made good!
            Tables, chairs and oaken chests would have suited Jesus best
            He'd have caused nobody harm
            No one alarm!

[back to 4/4]
            Listen Jesus do you care for your race,
            Can't you see we must keep in our place
            We are occupied - Have you forgotten how put down we are?
            I am frightened by the crowd
            For we are getting much too loud
            And they'll crush us if we go to far.
                                                
                                                If we  go-oh-oh-oh       to-oo 
                              1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  |1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8
[piano arranged for guitar] e|10-------10-------10----|8--------8--------8----|
                            B|10-------10-------------|8--------8-------------|
                            G|---12-10----12-10----10-|---10-9-----10-9-----9-|

                              far________________________________________ 
                            e|6--------6--------6-----|5--------5--------5----|
                            B|6--------6--------------|5--------5-------------|
                            G|---9--7-----9--7-----7--|---7--5-----7--5-----5-|
                            
[notes of melody to previous line]
  Bb C  D  F  G  A   A  A  G-A-G F-G-F E-F E-F-E D-E-D
  If we go-oh-oh-oh  to-oo far________________________ 
  
 
[Instrumental section to "Nazareth your famous son..." chords]
[in 7/8]    (Play section below twice)
   Bb      F      Gm      Dm     Gm      Dm/A   A7      Dm
   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |1 2 3 4 5 6 7 |1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 e|--------------|--------------|--------------|--------------| 
 B|--6--6--------|--------------|--------------|--5--5--6-----|
 G|7--7--7-5-----|--7--7--------|--7--7--------|----------7-7-|
 D|----------7---|8--8--8-7-----|8--8--8-------|7--7--7-------|
 A|------------8-|----------8---|--------8-7-5-|--------------|
 E|--------------|------------10|--------------|--------------|

                   Listen Jesus to the warning I give,
                   Please remember that I want us to live
                   But it's sad to see our chances weakening with every hour....
                   All your followers are blind,
                   Too much heaven on their minds
                   It was beautiful but now it's
                   BbM7            Dm         Repeat & Fade BbM7 & Dm
                   sour, Yes it's ah-all... go-ah-one
                   sour ......................
                   Oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh,...
                   God ah ah ah!  Jesus!   ,Cause it's
                   all....      gone sour
                   Listen Jesus to the warning I give
                   Can't you know that I'm warning...
                   C'mon, c'mon  listen to
                   me ahhh! ah ah ah ah Ahhh! ah ah ah aha ha ha
                   Oh oh oh oh oh oh
                   Won't you listen to me.