Hallelujah Chords

by Leonard Cohen
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Key: C
Capo: no capo
Author oundj [a] 71.
8 contributors total, last edit on Nov 20, 2019
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Chords

C
G
Am
F
E

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[Intro]
C G
 
 
[Verse 1]
         C                 Am
Now 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?
   C                   F           G
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
    Am              F
The minor fall, the major lift
    G               E            Am
The baffled king composing, hallelujah
 
 
[Chorus]
     F           Am          F           C  G C   G
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu - jah
 
[Verse 2]
     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 and the moonlight overthrew ya
    C             F       G
She tied you to a kitchen chair
    Am                         F
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
    G                  E             Am
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah
 
 
[Chorus]
     F           Am          F           C  G C   G
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu - jah
 
[Verse 3]
C               Am
Baby, 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
     C                     F      G
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Am            F
Love is not a victory march
       G                E           Am
It's a cold, and it's a broken hallelujah
 
 
[Chorus]
     F           Am          F           C  G C   G
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu - jah
 
 
[Verse 4]
      C                   Am
There was a time when you let me know
       C            Am
What's really going on below
    F             G              C       G
But now you never show it to me, do you?
      C             F        G
And remember when I moved in you
    Am            F
The holy dove was moving too
    G               E             Am
And every breath we drew was hallelujah
 
 
[Chorus]
     F           Am          F           C  G C   G
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu - jah
 
 
[Verse 5]
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
     C                 F       G
It's not a cry you can hear at night
     Am                   F
It's not somebody who has seen the light
       G                E           Am
It's a cold, and it's a broken hallelujah
 
 
[Chorus]
     F           Am          F           C  G C   G
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu - jah
 
 
[Verse 6]
    C              Am
You say I took the name in vain
       C            Am
Though I don't even know the name
    F              G                 C      G
But if I did, well really, what's it to ya?
          C                 F     G
There's a blaze of light in every word
   Am             F
It doesn't matter which you heard
    G           E           Am
The holy or the broken hallelujah
 
 
[Chorus]
     F           Am          F           C  G C   G
Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelu - jah
 
 
[Verse 7]
  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
    C              F        G
And even though it all went wrong
     Am               F
I'll stand before the Lord of Song
     G             E               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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33 comments
Frampo56
It's E7. NOT E. NOT Em. !!
+7
victoriaelizr
Well done. It's a shame that I waited until his death to learn this song
+5
KayRoFred
I know this wouldnt be the correct picking part, but I play it by picking: e-------x----x- b-----x----x--- g---x----x----- Throughout the whole song by picking those strings with the chords. That's just how I play it because I think it sounds pretty.
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