"Hallelujah" on ukulele by Leonard Cohen • UkuTabs

Artist	Leonard Cohen
Album	Various Positions
Genre(s)	blues • Canadian • folk • rock • singer-songwriter
Note	For the version by Jeff Buckley, click here.
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Intro:
    C           Am          C           Am
xA|----3-----3-----0-----0-----3-----3-----0-----0----|
xE|---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---|
xC|--0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0-0---0--|
xG|-0-----0-----2-----2-----0-----0-----2-----2-------|

Verse:
     C                 Am
I've heard there was a secret chord
     C                    Am
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
    F                G               C       G
But you don't really care for music, do you?

Pre-Chorus:
   C                   F           G
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
    Am              F
The minor fall, the major lift
    G               Em          Am
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Chorus:
     F           Am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
      F          C-G-C-C
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Verse:
     C                        Am
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
    C               Am
You saw her bathing on the roof
    F             G             C        G
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you

Pre-Chorus:
    C 
She tied you
     F       G
To a kitchen chair
    Am     
She broke your throne,
    F
she cut your hair
    G                  Em            Am
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Chorus:
     F           Am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
      F          C-G-C-C
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Verse 3:
    C              Am
You say I took the name in vain
C            Am
I don't even know the name
    F              G                 C      G
But if I did, well really, what's it to ya?

Pre-Chorus:
          C                 F     G
There's a blaze of light in every word
   Am             F
It doesn't matter which you heard
    G           Em          Am
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Chorus:
     F           Am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
      F          C-G-C-C
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
 
Verse 4:
  C               Am
I did my best, it wasn't much
  C                   Am
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
     F                 G                    C   G
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya

Pre-Chorus:
    C              F        G
And even though it all went wrong
     Am               F
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
     G             Em              Am
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah
 
Outro:
     F           Am          F           C G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
     F           Am          F           C G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
     F           Am          F           C G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
     F           Am          F           C G C
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

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ash staten

I love ukutabs and ive been using it for a couple years now. but the one thing that always upsets me is when the scroll bar stops in the middle of the song. could you please fix this issue? thank you sooooo much ! <3

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May

Love this song. If you’re a beginner, this song actually sounds really good with just one strum for each chord!

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Abby

i love this website and this song is just not even hard!

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Michael

Who changed the words?

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Denise

I noticed lyrics changes, and I’m super annoyed about it.

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Jonas

There are now, more correctly, two versions on UkuTabs:

– by Leonard Cohen: https://ukutabs.com/l/leonard-cohen/hallelujah/
– by Jeff Buckley: https://ukutabs.com/j/jeff-buckley/hallelujah-four/

This version above had previously incorrectly the lyrics for Jeff Buckleys version :-).

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brandylee78

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

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Marie Anderson

I love this app it helps me learn new song I wanna learn.

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Marina

IMO a C instead of the first Am sounds better in the prechorus. and an E7 also sounds great in the prechorus rather than the Em but both sound pretty good

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idkmyname

yeah!

also~we are both named marina lol

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Virginia Alexa

…… Pentatonix’s new Christmas album anyone?

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meatandpotadjoos

LITERALLY ME

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Virginia Alexa

your username is literally life

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i_dunno

Bruh what this is a really good song but i think +6 sounds really good (:

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jenni

i use DDU-UDU with a faster pace

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UkuTigerGirl

Such a beautiful song!

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@Candyland

+7 is the easiest if you have a high voice and it is not that hard.

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Jjsjsskksks

Thank you that helps a lot .

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Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen (b. 21st September 1934 in Montréal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet, novelist and musician. His musical career has largely overshadowed his prior work as a poet and novelist, although he continued to publish poetry sporadically after his breakthrough in the music industry. In 1967, disappointed with his lack of financial success as a writer, Cohen moved to the United States to pursue a career as a folk music singer-songwriter. During the 1960s, he was a fringe figure in Andy Warhol's "Factory" crowd.
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