CAPO: 2nd Fret 


Intro: D C D C D C G  C D  

                                    C 
He came into the shop and looked me straight between the eyes 
    D                                 C 
And said, "You know I'm Jesus", and I must have looked surprised 
           D                             C 
Because he said, "Please don't be hasty, no-one understands 
         G                                            C 
But I've got a way to prove it", and he lifted up his hands 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus 


                                      C 
For a minute I was speechless, then I looked into his face 
        D                                C 
With sufficient lines of sadness for the total human race 
      D                                  C 
And I said, "You must be joking", but he slowly shook his head 
    G                                                  C 
And said "That's what they all say, I might as well be dead." 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus 


                                    C 
He asked me if I knew a place where he could start to preach 
      D                           C 
And I said "Well try a church, or maybe Brighton Beach" 
          D                            C 
And I was trying to be serious, but he didn't seem impressed 
   G                                                    C 
He said, "You think I'm crazy, you're just like all the rest." 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus 


                                       C 
I was really quite embarrassed, he was looking so sincere 
     D                                       C 
So I said, "I close the shop soon, won't you come and have a beer?" 
        D                              C 
Then he asked me if I meant it, and he gave a funny smile 
    G                                               C 
And said he'd rather like that, and he hung around awhile 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus 


                             C 
On the way he stopped to pat little children's heads 
    D                                              C 
And taught them one line prayers to say, when they went off to their beds 
    D                                    C 
But mostly they were frightened and they looked at him wide-eyed 
            G                                      C 
And when he said his name was Jesus, one girl even cried 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus 


                                C 
In the pub I asked him, if he'd tried to see the Pope 
       D                                              C 
And he said although he'd thought about it, there was really not a hope 
        D                                  C 
Then he said he thought he'd better go, he had some work to do 
   G                                            C 
He said he'd come and see me in about a week or two 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus 


                          C 
Well after he had gone, I thought of what he'd said 
    D                                C 
And all his funny actions, they kept running through my head 
    D                                C 
And when I felt my mind was drowning in a sea of mud 
   G                                                 C 
It seemed his pint of beer had turned into a pint of blood 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus 
           G       C              D 
He was the man who called himself Jesus