Hallelujah chords by John Cale

Chords with lyrics

Hallelujah
music and lyrics by Leonard Cohen
lyrics from http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/scrubs/hallelujah.htm
transcription by Andrew Koehn and Philip von der Borch

Standard tuning EADGBe

Chords:
C majorC 332010
A minorAm 002210
FF 133211
G+G 320003 or 320033
E minorEm 022000

Arpeggio something like this,
using whatever chord is played
e--------------x---------------------
B-----------------x------------------
G--------x-----------x--------------
D-----x------------------------------
A--x---------------------------------
E------------------------------------

Intro:
C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm C majorC A minorAm

Verse:
   C majorC         A minorAm
I've heard there was a secret chord
   C majorC           A minorAm
That David played and it pleased the Lord
   FF        G+G       C majorC     G+G
But you don't really care for music, do you?
  C majorC          FF      G+G
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
   A minorAm        FF
The minor fall, the major lift
   G+G        E minorEm      A minorAm
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Chorus:
   FF      A minorAm      FF      C majorC G+G C majorC  G+G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu - jah

   C majorC         A minorAm
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
   C majorC       A minorAm
You saw her bathing on the roof
   FF       G+G     C majorC        G+G
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
   C majorC       FF    G+G
She tied you to a kitchen chair
   A minorAm            FF
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
   G+G        E minorEm      A minorAm
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

   FF      A minorAm      FF      C majorC G+G C majorC  G+G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu - jah

Baby I've been here before, I know this room
I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu - jah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu - jah

Maybe there's a God above, all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who out drew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu - jah


Take care,


Derek Bolli, Head Hacker,
Bolli World HQ Computing Facility,
Hornsby NSW 2077
Sydney, Australia  email: dbolli at bigpond dot net dot au (home)