Learn how to play Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. "Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).

Hallelujah

Songs/by Jeff Buckley
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C# Major Chord

Notes

  • C#,
  • F,
  • G#

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Songs / How to play

Hallelujah

by Jeff Buckley
Intermediate

Chords

Requires a capo on the 1st fret

  • C#, F, G#
  • A#, F, C#
  • F#, C#, A#
  • G#, C, D#
  • F, C, D#, A

Song structure

Intro

C#    A#m    C#    Am#

Verse

     C#                A#m
I've heard there was a secret chord
     C#                   A#m
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#
Well it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
    A#m                 F#
The minor fall, and the major lift
    G#           F7             A#m
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Chorus

    F#          Am#
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
    F#          C#    G#   C#
Hallelujah, Halleluuuuuuuuujah
A#m   C#   A#m

Verse

           C#                       A#m
Well, your faith was strong but you needed proof
     C#             A#m
You saw her bathing on the roof
    F#             G#          C#           G#
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you
    C#              F#       G#
She tied you to her kitchen chair
    A#m                       F#
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
    G#                 F7            A#m
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah

Chorus

Repeat the chorus

Verse

C#              A#m
Baby, I've been here before
     C#                      A#m
I've seen this room and 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
    A#m              F#
But love is not a victory march
       G#              F7          A#m
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Chorus

Repeat the chorus

Verse

           C#                  A#m
Well there was a time when you let me know
       C#           A#m
What's really going on below
    F#            G#               C#        G#
But now you never show that to me, do you?
      C#            F#       G#
But remember when I moved in you
        A#m           F#
And the holy dove was moving too
    G#              F7            A#m
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Chorus

Repeat the chorus

Verse

      C#              A#m
Well, maybe there's a God above
    C#            A#m
But all I've ever learned from love
    F#               G#          C#         G#
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
     C#                 F#      G#
It's not a cry that you hear at night
     A#m                F#
It's not somebody who's seen the light
       G#              F7          A#m
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Outro

Repeat the chorus multiple times