Hallelujah Lyrics by Leonard Cohen. Verse 1. 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 ya?

Thirty years ago this weekend, Leonard Cohen first performed a song called "Hallelujah."* ... Cohen's lyrics, meanwhile, are all too biting and bemused for this sort of soaring majesty.

The Many Lives of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’: How a Seemingly Carnal Song Has Now Even Become a Christmas Perennial (Book Excerpt) In Alan Light's newly expanded book about the strange ...

A new documentary, “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” details how the tune went on a journey from John Cale and Jeff Buckley covers to “Shrek” and “American Idol” ubiquity.

The late Leonard Cohen's best known song, "Hallelujah," took more than a decade to find its audience. Alan Light, author of the "The Holy or the Broken," talks about the unlikely ascent of the song.

In the 35 years since its release, Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" has been covered by more than 300 artists in a variety of genres and become a staple of TV singing shows. Not bad for a song that ...

It ultimately took Cohen five years to write Hallelujah, but many more to find an audience for the song. In 1984, CBS Records passed on Cohen's album that had the original Hallelujah, but ...

It was on the second of those albums—2016’s A Pentatonix Christmas—that the group covered “Hallelujah.”It was an unconventional choice. Lyrically, “Hallelujah” is not particularly ...

Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is one of the most-covered songs in the world, but it took a few different people to make it that way.

NEW YORK — It’s hard to think of any song that has taken a stranger journey through popular culture than Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Recorded in 1984, it was on the only Cohen album ...