Help please with a music question.

[hickman]

Has anyone ever done a cover of the original version of Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah? The one he did first in 84? Apparently there were actually about 15 verses and John Cale picked and chose when he covered it, so that's the version everyone in the freaking world covers. Has anyone ever done the original? These are the original verses.



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

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah
Hallelujah

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 a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

You say I took the name in vain
I don't even know the name
But if I did, well really, what's it to you?
There's a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn't matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

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

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. I think Jeff Buckley's had...

all the verses but the last one.

Not sure otherwise.
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[hickman]

3. No Jeff Buckley did John Cale's version.

Artist: John Cale Lyrics
Song: Hallelujah Lyrics
I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah

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 a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Baby I've been here before, I know this room
I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the Marble Arch
Love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
I remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above, all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who out drew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah
Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley probably did the best cover ever done, but he covered John Cale's earlier version.

[u4ic]

7. Personally,

I think kd lang did the best cover of all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW_H-VeTv8g

(the second last verse is missing from hers)


:hi:

[alarimer]

2. Jeff Buckley

off the Grace album

[hickman]

4. Thank's but no. The best cover, but not the original lyrics. n/t

[graywarrior]

5. Wainwright III did an original, I believe.

[hickman]

9. Where? I've heard the one from Shrek.

It's the same as John Cale's. Is there another?

[dropkickpa]

6. As per Wikipedia

The most acclaimed cover of the song to date is by American singer-songwriter Jeff Buckley. Most subsequent covers have copied Buckley's version, which in turn follows John Cale's 1991 recording.

Rufus Wainwright also covered the track, emphasizing the piano – and his version was included on the Shrek soundtrack in 2001, although it was John Cale's recording from the tribute album I'm Your Fan that inspired Wainwright's and was used in the film itself. (Wainwright apparently replaced him on the soundtrack because he is signed with Dreamworks SKG and Cale is not.) The Shrek theme music was also based on "Hallelujah."

Among the many other musicians who have performed covers of this song are Elisa, Bono, Bob Dylan, Clare Bowditch, Allison Crowe, Jackie Greene, Julie Felix, Imogen Heap, Anthony Michael Hall, Bettie Serveert, Custard, k.d. lang, Kevin Max, Gord Downie, Street to Nowhere, Wayne Whittaker, the Prayerbabies and Kathryn Williams.

Counting live performances, the list includes Ari Hest, Brandi Carlile, Gavin DeGraw, Dave Dobbyn, The Dresden Dolls, Chris Clonts, Damien Rice, Jay Clifford, Regina Spektor, Starsailor, Alter Bridge, and Sheryl Crow. Chris Botti recorded an instrumental version of the song for the album December. Susanna And The Magical Orchestra performed their take on the song at the London Jazz festival; broadcast by BBC Radio 3 on the 13th of December 2004. An a cappella version by Clemson University's "TakeNote" is included on the "Best of College A Cappella 2006" CD.

My favorite cover is the Rufus Wainwright.

[hickman]

8. If you really want to hear this song by a lot of people,

go here.

http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2006/05/hallelujah.html

The one by the Dresden Dolls is a hoot.