Guitar chord Hallelujah

Hallelujah was written by Leonard Cohen and originally released on his Various Positions album in 1984. The song has been subject to various interpretations and has numerous cover versions, with Jeff Buckleys perhaps being the most famous. Cohen wrote numerous verses for Hallelujah, from which different performers select differently for their recordings or performances. The song blends religious themes with personal longing and features a memorab ... See more [+]

Key:  G 
         
G
                   
Em
 
Now I've heard there was a secret chord
     
G
                      
Em
 
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
    
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D
                   
G
    
D
 
But you don't really care for music, do you?
   
G
                  
C
           
D
 
It goes like this the fourth, the fifth
    
Em
              
C
 
The minor fall, the major lift
    
D
               
B7
          
Em
 
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
     
C
           
Em
          
C
           
G
  
D
 
G
  
D
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

     
G
                         
Em
 
Your faith was strong, but you needed proof
    
G
               
Em
 
You saw her bathing on the roof
    
C
              
D
             
G
        
D
 
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
    
G
             
C
       
D
 
She tied you to a kitchen chair
    
Em
                         
C
 
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    
D
                  
B7
            
Em
 
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
     
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Em
          
C
           
G
  
D
 
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D
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

    
G
              
Em
 
You say I took the name in vain
G
            
Em
 
I don't even know the name
    
C
              
D
                 
G
      
D
 
But if I did, well really, what's it to ya?
          
G
                 
C
     
D
 
There's a blaze of light in every word
   
Em
             
C
 
It doesn't matter which you heard
    
D
           
B7
          
Em
 
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
     
C
           
Em
          
C
           
G
  
D
 
G
  
D
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelu-u-jah

  
G
               
Em
 
I did my best, it wasn't much
  
G
                   
Em
 
I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch
     
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D
                    
G
   
D
 
I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya
    
G
              
C
        
D
 
And even though it all went wrong
     
Em
               
C
 
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
     
D
             
B7
              
Em
 
With nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah

     
C
           
Em
          
C
           
G
 
D
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
     
C
           
Em
          
C
           
G
 
D
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
     
C
           
Em
          
C
           
G
 
D
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
     
C
           
Em
          
C
           
G
 
D
 
G
 
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah