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:
C Am
Maybe I've been here before
C Am
I know this room, I've walked this floor
F G C G
I used to live alone before I knew you
Pre-Chorus:
C F G
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Am F
love is not a victory march
G Em Am
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
Chorus:
F Am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
F C-G-C-C
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Verse:
C Am
There was a time you'd let me know
C Am
What's real and going on below
F G C G
But now you never show it to me do you?
Pre-Chorus:
C F G
Remember when I moved in you?
Am F
The holy dark was moving too
G Em Am
And every breath we drew was hallelujah
Chorus:
F Am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
F C-G-C-C
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Verse:
C Am
Maybe there's a God above
C Am
And all I ever learned from love
F G C G
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
Pre-Chorus:
C F G
It's not a cry you can hear at night
Am F
It's not somebody who's seen the light
G Em Am
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah
Outro:
F Am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
F C-G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
F Am
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
F C-G-C
Hallelujah, Hallelujah This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.
Difficulty level 1/5
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. Read more on Last.fm
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Hi! I really love this song but since the chord progression changes for the verses, pre-chorus and chorus, it would be extremely helpful if you wrote out the chords for the whole song. It would save everyone who uses this tab having to write it out themselves.
Thanks :)
It had all the cords for me.
i love this song and it sounds great on the ukulele even though it is originally played on the guitar. It is still as beautiful.
if you are on a PC it should show all the chords, a phone or he app won’t
I find the ukulele version is even more beautiful the the guitar version if you use a pick.
I love this song so much, but it’d make it a lot easier if you added the cords to all the lyrics! :)
“Hi! I really love this song but since the chord progression changes for the verses, pre-chorus and chorus, it would be extremely helpful if you wrote out the chords for the whole song. It would save everyone who uses this tab having to write it out themselves.
Thanks :)”
I totally agree with taylorrose. =]
Thank you ^^
Yeah, I agree with everyone who has posted comments. It would be sooooo much easier and better if the chords were one the whole song, since it’s sorta hard for me to memorize the chords (I’m only 11!)
same!
I am 8. but I can see the chords, all of them, so is there a glitch of something?
I believe the person who put the song on here changed it when you and me looked at this song @Ukulele Bango
Indeed, I’ve added the chords throughout the song due to popular request :-)
me to
Hi again! I know I’ve already said this, along with a couple of other people but as far as I know, our comments haven’t been seen. Please write out all of the chords to the song!
Thank you :)
I totally agree with you!!!!
Apologies for the delay everyone! I have now placed the chords throughout the song! :-)
Thank you!!! :D
hi! i really love this song but it would be help full if you added all the lyrics and chors and put them in the correct order. thank you!
Hello Claire. What part is missing? The chords are already placed over all parts of the lyrics.
i liove this song so much and knowing it on the uki is great
This is the first song I ever learned on my uke thank you guys!
Same omg
I think the penultimate chord in the pre-chorus should be E7 not Em. At least when I play it on my own, I prefer the added tension leading to the Am.
THIS. A thousand times, this. The E7 (instead of Em) really nails the tension of that note and makes the resolve to Am so much more satisfying. Good ear, Dodgson!
E7 sounds amazing!!!! It might just be a personal preference, as people listening yo me asked why it sounded “different”, but that it great. Thank you so much and even though it’s not in the song here it still sounds great ;)
Seconded!!
Hi! These chords are super accurate!!! Thanks so much. Really awesome song! ☺☺
Thanks so much for these awesome chords!
I think this song is absolutely perfect! But I’ve been playing the ukulele for a while now and I still can’t figure out how to read/play the intro part. What do all those symbols mean? If anyone can help out that would be awesome! Thanks! :)
Hello Xenia!
The intro is tablature. Each one of the lines (made of dashes) represent strings on the uke. The numbers mean the fret you put your fingers on.
Hope it helps
I think Dodgson_here is right about the Em being an E7. Thanks for the chords!
I love this song!! Thank you! Now the second song I learned!! <3
i just ignore the intro @ Xenia
@Xenia: read from left to right, each line is one of your cords (not cHord!), a 0 means open (no fret pressed), a number means press this fret for this particular cord.
In this intro you press the third fret on the A cord, then start struming slowly down, then back up (keep the third fret on the A-cord pressed), then back down, (release the A-Cord, press the second fret on the G cord), back up, etc …
The tempo is up to you.
I might be completely wrong of course, as I’m really just a beginner, but that’s how I understood those notations. On Hallelujah it’s pretty simple thankfully :)
it is chord with an h
Haha
Does anyone know if you can play this with the Rufus Wainwright version?
I checked it out on another website, and i believe everything is the same.
Really helpful absolutely love this song :)
I love this song but in the beginning of the song, it is ” I heard there was a sacred chord.”
Love that the chords are now locked at the top of the page. Thank you.
Thanks so much! I love this song and it is a super accurate represent ation of the song. Great to know on the uke!
This might just be personal preference, (im not trying to be rude I swear) but in the pre-chorus I chose to play E7 instead of Em. I feel like it builds up to the Am more then the Em does, but that might be just me. ;)
I love playing this in the +5 trans. It sounds really good to me hahah.
Thank you so much for this as I have been wanting to play this for ages! I was just wondering the lyrics in his song are different to the ones here and I thought maybe it was just the one that I have but it’s off his real album so I’m a bit confused. Not a criticism by the way just wondered
Sooo much easier on the female voice if you transpose it 5 half-steps up (no capo).
Thank you so much for uploading this tab, you did a wonderful job!
I really love playing the pre chorus. It gives me a good feeling inside
HI I AM YOUR #1 FAN I JUST WANTED TO SAY I LOVE YOUR SONG IT MAKES A LOT OF SENCE AND YOU ROCK
the lyrics are slightly off in some places “the holy /dove/ was moving too” dove not dark
Love this song/music thank you for putting it online for us to play.
I bought my first Uke a week ago (7th Nov ’14) having never picked up a string instrument in my life and I’m just mastering picking having mastered chords on some really easy tunes.
It would have been helpful for the chords to be written out too, but I can see that it may cause copyright issues if you do. I can’t read music but can follow what should go where and when, I suppose I could teach that to meself as I go along.
Anyway thanks for the music to Hallelujah and God bless you.
Kat (UK)
can someone explain me how to read the tabs please?
for an alto voice, I actually found this piece easier to play by transposing 5 half-steps down then singing it an octave higher. Kind of weird, but it works.
This is so perfect, thanks! I’ve finally found the song for my school Show Fest!!!
Could someone tell me how I should read the intro?
Two more verses Leonard has been known to sing…
You say I took, the name in vein,
But I don’t even know the name,
but if I did, well really, what’s it to ya?
There’s a blaze of light in every word,
It doesn’t matter which you’ve heard,
the Holy or the Broken Hallelujah…
Chorus:
I did my best, it wasn’t much
I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch,
I told the truth, I didn’t come to fool ya,
And even though it all went wrong,
I’ll stand before the Lord of song,
with nothing on my tounge but Hallelujah!!!
when it gets to the end of the pre-chorus i just scream my lungs out
Same.
I love this song so much!
THIS IS FANTASTIC. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART. (Leonard is a genius. But Jeff MADE this song what it is. My opinion.)
GOD BLESS. <3
Hey, guys! I’m kinda new to this ukulele community. This is the, like, third song I learned on my uke. But this place makes it a lot easier when it comes to learning songs. I just love how it shows you how to finger the notes. I find it extremely helpful. Thanks for making this. Love the song, too! And just about every other song on this place. Soo helpful!
I’m somewhat new to playing the ukulele. This was maybe the THIRD song I learned, and I love it so much. This page makes it so super easy to learn the songs that are pretty modern. But I like how it has how to finger the notes. I mean, it’s bizarre, really, how easy this sight makes learning songs. X3
That was really easy:)
Thx for the tab!
Wait… Jonas, do you own this site? Just a question:)
i learnt it easily but at the end i was like AHHHHH NOT THE SAAAAAAMMMMMMEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
Dodgson_here was right about E7 it seems more sense to progress to Am by transitioning from E7 instead of entirely changing the finger pattern
I´m new with the ukelele and this tabs are really very good !! Thank you so much
i love this song and it was the first song i ever played on the uke
fun!!!
morgan freeman and shrek sent me
i like -2.
I do not like the lyrics in the second verse at all… Seriously, what kind of woman would be dumb enough to bathe on top of her roof?
@bananahawley…. Really? You’ve obviously never read the bible or a least know some of the stories. The lyrics are perfect.
@Bananahawley It’s not actually a woman bathing on the roof, its a reference to the bible (Samuel 11:2-3)
@Phillip Hansel THANK YOU!!!
Just an FYI the words are “holy dove” not “holy dark” Though dark has been known before it’s talking about the Holy Spirit which symbol is a dove. :)
HI, I love playing this song! I think the Em in the pre-chorus sounds a bit better as E7. It just adds a bit more feeling or something.
I love this song! Thanks!
Great work, I really do think this is very well written and helpful especially for a beginner to learn. The only thing I have about this, and I wouldn’t really call it too much of a complaint, but it seems like that you wrote inspired by Rufus Wainwright, who is another artist who covered it. I understand why you did say that this was written by Leonard Cohen, because it originally was, but I just find it would be more helpful to just input that, as the intro and outro imparticular are from the version by Wainwright. This is still very well done, and this tab can be played to Cohen’s original version, just without the intro and with a different outro, but I thought that it would just help to say so incase someone was confused about anything.
thank you for sharing this!!! a good moment this evening while i’m playing and singing this beautiful song! thank you!
I followed the advice of some above and it does work better for the female voice when transposing +5. Chords may not be as easy as the ‘normal’ version but it is worth it to keep your voice steady. Again, I can’t thank you enough for the transposing tool!
hallelujah…
Great job but can you please oh PLEASE put the chords throught the entire song
Hi, I’m learning to fingerpick this song. I’m using a steady 123456 beat and everything is beautiful until the prechorus when it changes tempo. Any tips? Thanks!
Hi! Beginner here..
This song is great… but the tuning is so high @___@
How would we make it lower?
Thanks to anyone who will answer
hi this is quite a late reply but if you go up to the top of the screen there are a bunch of boxes with numbers and if you click them they transpose the key. In my opinion, +2 sounds much prettier, but the notes are quite low vocally and i have trouble reaching them. hope this helps
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LITERALLY ME
your username is literally life
I have heard the line ‘with? light blazing with every word’ in a verse sung by a male quire. Anyone?
There is a key change. Please add.
rip Leonard
RIP to the Bard of Montreal.
May his music live on far beyond our years.
I think it sounds better if you use E7 instead of Em
Love -5
I really like +5!
LOVE THIS SONG! The 2nd to last pre-chorus it says “the holy dark” but the correct lyric is “the Holy Ghost”
The progression for the line “The baffled king composing hallelujah” should be C E. Am. Not C Em Am.
can should please tell me what strum pattern to use and if you would like to comment and tell me what songs are fun to play. I have been recently looking for new songs to play!
thank you! :)
I heard this @ #Disricts17. People would just sit next to the wall and start playing now I can join in. Thanks ukutabs!
I agree with Helene.
It should be E major rather than E minor
I’m eleven and my hands aren’t big enough to do the chord “E”. If it had an “E” instead of “EM”, I would probably just turn away and find different song. AND THEN I WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PLAY THIS BEAUTIFUL SONG!!! So it MIGHT really be “E”, but “EM” totally works for me.
yay
I live this song! Its a super easy one too!!
Love this! But I feel that instead of playing an Em, E7 is more fitting to the actual song.
Try a Bdim instead on the Em. I think this is truer to the song as written.
Hey! this is wonderful music,but it says that we can only use it for private study, scholarship or research. i have to perform some songs on the ukulele and idk if im “allowed” to use this music
I’m pretty sure that you can use it to perform, I think it just means like you can’t publish it elsewhere or claim it be your own work
I really feel this is a great song. It’s great to play on the ukulele, but me and my brother usually do duets so my uke is kind of hard to hear. Anyway this is a great song and I absolutely love it, and I hope you will too!!! :3
What is the strum pattern for this song? Or does it not have one?
I think it’s what it says in the intro. I reckon that’s the strum pattern. So not exactly a strum.
Great tab! Love’d learning this song! But you have wrong lyrics in some of the verses. Here’s what Jeff wrote!
Well I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah [x4]
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah [x4]
Baby I’ve been here before
I’ve seen this room and I’ve walked this floor (you know)
I used to live alone before I knew you
And I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah [x4]
There was a time when you let me know
What’s really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do you?
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah [x4]
Maybe there’s a God above
All I’ve ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
And it’s not a cry that you hear at night
It’s not somebody who’s seen the light
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah [x13]
wow this sounds great and honestly it sounds even better on my soprano ukulele
Hey Ukulele Bango! There’s no glitch, everyone who posted that there was a glitch posted that years ago. So you’re seeing it right.
great & easy chords but I find -5 so much easier to sing
Instead of G you an do G7, it sounds better
HI MY DUdeS
I personally like to switch out the G on the last line of the verse for an Fmin. It just sounds better on a ukulele, and it definitely adds emotion to the song if you strum harder in the first two lines of the pre-chorus and then switch to soft strumming for the last line in combo.
I am pretty sure the Em before the chorus should be an E7.
❤️ this song!
-5
for strumming patterns I found the best one was down down up down down up, and it works for the whole song beautifully
You don’t play Em you play E7 I think and the picking pattern is wrong
I love this! It’s so easy to play and its beautiful.
Try these chords in Capo 4 with faster tempo…gives it a whole new sound.
I think this tab was a success! :) :)
if you’re having trouble i recommend transpose 0, it’s the easiest
How dold you do it ??
DDUDU ?
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Thank You
Will someone please explain how to read the intro? All I see is morse code and letters, will anyone help me out?
What is the strumming pattern?
I like +2
This is such a great song!! Nice job! :-D
I love -3 with an E7 instead of an A. It sounds cool and is easier to play.
E not A. Clearly, I can’t type.
What’s the strum pattern for this? I’m new to uke so I might be missing something but I’ve just been playing D U D for each chord. Is that right?
Could someone please help me with the strumming pattern?
Great job Jonas! I use this site for all my songs because i love it. Could I recommend Jesus is a friend of mine by sunseed? My grandfather sang in that song. Also, something just like this by Coldplay would be amazing. Thanks! :)
-2 is so nice for female voice if you are a mezzo soprano!!!
Strumming pattern?
ahem.
my chaloopa, my chaloopa, my chaloopa, my chalooooooopa
And as we know there was a man, who preached the truth in rock and sand and jesus wont hold yo sins to you xDDD
|-/
E7 sounds so much better than Em!!!
I enjoy this song a lot. I am singing/playing it with a group of my friends (I’m the only female voice because they’re all male) and the ukulele part sounds wonderful with the piano part. I also have been using a picking pattern through out the whole song where you go note on A string, note on E string, note on C string twice for each chord. It sounds really nice.
I am on a chromebook and everything is fine the whole song is there and I can see all of the chord progressions.