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Hallelujah Tab

by Rufus Wainwright


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1st:
                      
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

2nd:
                        
Your faith was strong but you needed proof
                      
You saw her bathing on the roof
                                    
Her beauty in 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

3rd:
                        
Maybe 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, Hallelujah
             --
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

4th:
                        
There was a time when you let me know
                        
What's real and going on below
                                    
But now you never show it to me, do you?
                         
And remember when I moved in you
                       
The Holy Dark was moving too
                             
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
              
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
             
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

5th:
                     
Maybe there's a God above
                        
And all I ever learned from love
                                      
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew 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
                --
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
               
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
                --
Hallelujah, Hallelujah