Hallelujah Poll, poll Halleluja....

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xpost doesn't rhyme and the syllables are all wrong. Still, it works as a rap.

The syllables work if you approach them like a Bob Dylan, a Bruce Springsteen, a Paul Simon or a Joni Mitchell. :)

OK, still doesn't rhyme.

and there's something going on here
but you don't really care for music,
do you, Mr Geir?

This song has turned into Amazing Grace, and I mean that in a very bad way. Abbott is right about Shrek being the culprit.

― Chaka Mo Khanlier (kkvgz), Sunday, December 5, 2010 7:03 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Or maybe even "I Got You Babe".

and there's something going on here
but you don't really care for music,
do you, Mr Geir?

I heard there was a secret poll
That Mark G made to please a troll

― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Sunday, December 5, 2010 10:34 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

lol

Do any of the cover versions use the lyrics of the original Cohen studio version? The last verse about standing before the lord of song has always been the most powerful of the verses for me, but it seems like every cover version I've heard springs from Cale's cover which used alternate lyrics that Cohen provided him.

OH: "That's not a love song, it's a song they play on telethons when lots of people have died..."

!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItXygU9SJCA

I wish Cohen recorded a simple guitar or piano arrangement of this, with him singing. His phrasing is better than the cover artists (because he wrote it) but the production feels dated.

There is no perfect recording of this song, is what I’m saying. It remains pure potential, a shadow on a wall, an Orphic ceremony on the side of an urn.

This song has turned into Amazing Grace, and I mean that in a very bad way. Abbott is right about Shrek being the culprit.

― Chaka Mo Khanlier (kkvgz), Sunday, December 5, 2010 7:03 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is sort of true but I think the greatness of the song allows it to transcend the people who misunderstand the nuances of it. The real sentiment of the song has nothing to do with the shlocky uses it’s put to.

Cohen's live versions get around the production of the original.

I think it's become a ceremonial standard in part because, unlike Amazing Grace et. al., it sounds religious but isn't religious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3XRVJDfjnQ