jeff buckley?

butterflywings · 16-11-2002 1:13am #1

hey there
would any of you kind decent folk be able to sort out an arguement i keep having with one of my dear friends regarding the lyrics to 'alleluia' sung by the late great jeff buckley.
please, just if you could type out the lyrics and send them to me or something, because she's SO wrong and it's really getting annoying.
i'd really appreciate it, thanx a million

love
butterfly
xxxxx

PiE · 16-11-2002 1:26am

I heard there was a secret chord
That david played and it pleased the lord
But you don't really care for music, do you
Well it goes like this the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....

Well 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 her kitchen chair
She broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah .... .

Baby i've been here before
I've seen this room and i've walked this floor
I used to live alone before i knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
But love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah ....

Well there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me do you
But remember when i moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was hallelujah

Well, maybe there's a god above
But all i've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you
It's not a cry that you 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 ....

God bless Google.

butterflywings · 16-11-2002 12:27pm

thanks a million you're a petal (&i was right, so i'm happy:) )
love
butterfly
xx

Cherry · 16-11-2002 7:12pm

Beautiful song. Stunning.

By the way, I recommend listening to the original Leonard Cohen version too. There's some different lyrics in that. Equally stunning, however.

johnnynolegs · 18-11-2002 11:47am

Jeff Buckley is trluy amazing - I have to say my favourite one of his songs is eternal life

polarbelly · 18-11-2002 2:10pm

morning theft

is my fave at the moment

also
last goodbye
lover you should've come over

johnnynolegs · 18-11-2002 2:28pm

yeah they r all great ones aswell i commend ur choices polar

polarbelly · 18-11-2002 2:49pm

why thank you kind sir!

johnnynolegs · 18-11-2002 2:53pm

you are most kindly welcome

thedrowner · 18-11-2002 5:53pm

have to say i hated the leonard cohen version, i heard it had 5 of the same versus and 5 more (that's 10 altogther)

my faves would be gunshot glitter,
grace and what will you see (i believe its also called father on earlier material) also his version of kanga*roo....wow, shivers up my spine

PiE · 18-11-2002 8:01pm

Ah c'mon now, Cohen's version is just as brilliant.

Kopf · 18-11-2002 10:16pm

Get the Jeff Buckley Live in Chicago DVD/vhs.. It's ****ing amazing. Amazing to see him live, doing improv introductions to songs, like the true musician he was.

butterflywings · 19-11-2002 7:55pm

i've never heard leonard cohen singing it, all i know is jeff buckley's version always makes me cry. as in every time...... i don't have it on cd or i'd be permanently in floods. i really must get some of his stuff.... and skylarkin on the 19th....

thedrowner · 19-11-2002 10:36pm

thats the 29th...just in case that wasnt a typo

pie-i dont know why i dont like it, its always being praised so much-i think his voice just pisses me off. i suspect if i hadnt heard the jeff buckley version first i wouldnt be so against it.

Cherry · 19-11-2002 11:57pm

I heard the Jeff Buckley version first.. & I prefer the entire Leonard Cohen version, extra verses & all. I don't like L.C's voice but Jeff Buckley singing that version would be spectacular..

oompa loompa · 20-11-2002 12:19am

hmm, yea i'm much like drowner on this one..heard the jeff - type song version first, and i really love it, and then after ages i heard cohen singin it... just didn't seem quite right.. still, maybe i'll be givin it another chance and a brand new listen and all that coz all you good-music-taste people seem to be keen on it

we'll see..

hmmm and yeah roll on the 29th..

O also i've been trying for a million years to figure out how to make my (craaaaazzy soul) geetaa play hallelujah, so if any of you lovelies (and noooo, i'm not just flattering you so you'll help me.. :rolleyes:) would care to enlighten me with some great teaching insights, that'd be peachy!

Cherry · 20-11-2002 4:07pm

I can only sing it, sorry. Plus I can't play any guitar at all so I'm no help anyway..

Speaking of singing it.. my friend Clíodhna sings Hallelujah beautifully.

polarbelly · 20-11-2002 4:35pm

i love the name clíodhna

just thought i'd share that

johnnynolegs · 20-11-2002 4:52pm

tis a wonderful name to be sure

Cherry · 20-11-2002 8:52pm

Wonderful name for a wonderful person.

Kali · 20-11-2002 9:07pm

Anybody know whats the story with this "Grace EPs" collection?

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Aaz60tr4tklox

Has a release date of next week...

Kali · 20-11-2002 9:10pm

and a minute later I find the answer myself..

http://www.sonymusic.co.uk/uk/artist.php?id=248610&lang=eng&ze=saj

or

Buckley EPs Unearthed For Box Set

The excavation of Jeff's recorded output continues on Nov. 25th with the release of the five-disc box set "The Grace EPs."
The box will feature five EPs created in conjunction with Buckley's 1994 Columbia debut "Grace," two of which were never released commercially. A bonus studio track, "Tongue," has also been added to one of the EPs; the box sports 14 non-album tracks in all.

The box includes the original artwork for the EPs "Live From the Bataclan," "The Grace EP" (Australian promo), "Last Goodbye" (Japanese release), "So Real" (Dutch promo), and "Peyote Radio Theatre" (U.S. promo). Buckley's mother, Mary Guibert, provides liner notes with contributions from Buckley's band members Mick Grondahl, Michael Tighe, and Matt Johnson.

Featured in the box will be alternate or live versions of album tracks "Dream Brother," "Hallelujah," "Grace," "Mojo Pin," "Last Goodbye," and "So Real," as well as covers of songs by Van Morrison ("The Way Young Lovers Do") and Big Star ("Kanga-Roo"). Three versions of the title track from "Grace" are included.

The box follows the impending release of "Songs to No One" (Knitting Factory/Evolver), a compilation of previously unreleased tracks featuring Buckley in collaboration with noted guitarist/Gods & Monsters principal Gary Lucas.

Here is the track listing for "The Grace EPs":

"Live From the Bataclan"
"Dream Brother"
"The Way Young Lovers Do"
Medley: "Je Rien Connais Pas La Fin" / "Hymne a L'Amour"
"Hallelujah"

"The Grace EP"
"Grace"
"Grace" (live)
"Mojo Pin" (live)
"Hallelujah" (live)
"Tongue" (live in the studio)

"Last Goodbye"
"Last Goodbye" (edit)
"Mojo Pin" (live)
"Kanga-Roo"
"Lost Highway"

"So Real"
"So Real" (live)
"Grace" (live)
"Dream Brother" (live)

"Peyote Radio Theatre"
"Mojo Pin"
"Dream Brother" (Nag Champa mix)
"Kanga-Roo" (live)

sweeeet... now to convince somebody to pick it up for me as a christmas present

Cherry · 20-11-2002 10:03pm

I worked my brother about 15 seconds after I saw the ad in Q Magazine. Heh.

lamda · 20-11-2002 11:33pm

Its already out.. and a very reasonable price of 24.99 in HMV... unfortunately I am short about 24 euro of that amount.. do you think HMV will barter with me maybe???

bandit · 21-11-2002 1:37am

Originally posted by oompa loompa
O also i've been trying for a million years to figure out how to make my (craaaaazzy soul) geetaa play hallelujah, so if any of you lovelies (and noooo, i'm not just flattering you so you'll help me.. :rolleyes:) would care to enlighten me with some great teaching insights, that'd be peachy!

Here you go i've tabbed it myself

{yeah right!}

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I heard a secret chord that played

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pleased lord but

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you really care music do ya?

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goes this fourth fifth minor fall major lift the

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- jah

And so on for the rest o the song

thedrowner · 21-11-2002 11:34am

my friend does a gorgeous version of it on guitar, while i sing hee hee

kali, for the sake of having everything he does, i will probably buy it, but i actually already have so real, grace, eternal life and last goodbye singles. and in my collection, lost highway is on so real-but then theres a a live version or 2 on those ep's that i dont think i have on mine, which is a bit weird as i woudlve though they'd be the same ones i have. ah well.

johnnynolegs · 21-11-2002 11:47am

oh i am gonna buy this although i have most of them already ah well..............

polarbelly · 21-11-2002 1:28pm

jolly street is class...any of you's got it...really jazzy

oompa loompa · 22-11-2002 6:53pm

cheers bandit, looks a load more complicated than i care to imagine but hey i'll just plough through it a couple of times till someone smashes my guitar outta pity...

woo!

merry weekend all.

jeff buckley?

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