Leonhard Cohen's
Hallelujah from 1984 is one of the most covered songs ever. The best known cover of this beautiful song is the 1994 version of
Jeff Buckley. But there are dozens more of remarkable artists performing this song. This is the list of my collection so far.
The studio recodings:
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen from The Essential Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah -
Jeff Buckley from Grace
Hallelujah -
Allison Crowe from Tidings
Hallelujah -
Allison Moorer from Getting Somewhere
Hallelujah -
Bettie Serveert from Bare Stripped Naked EP
Hallelujah -
Brandi Carlile from Connect Sets
Hallelujah -
Bono from Tower of Song: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen
Hallelujah -
Cæcilie Norby from First Conversation
Hallelujah -
Chris Botti from December
Hallelujah -
Clare Bowditch from Triple J: Like a Version
Hallelujah -
Elisa from Lotus
Hallelujah -
Henna Heikkinen from Idols 2005
Hallelujah -
Holly Lerski & Angelou from Greeting From N.Y.
Hallelujah -
Imogen Heap from Music From The O.C.: The Mixes
Hallelujah -
John Cale from Music From [scrubs]
Hallelujah -
k.d. lang from Hymns of the 49th Parallel
Hallelujah -
Kathryn Williams from Relations
Hallelujah -
Keren Ann from Keren Ann
Hallelujah -
Krystal Meyers from Dying for a Heart
hallelujah -
No'am Peled from שיר זר (Shir Zarah), or Stranger Song
Hallelujah -
Rea Garvey from Barfuss Original Soundtrack
Hallelujah -
Rufus Wainwright from The Music of Grey's Anatomy
Hallelujah -
Sara Gazarek from Return To You
Hallelujah -
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra from Melody Mountain
hallelujah -
The Jazz Mandolin Project from The Deep Forbidden Lake
Hallelujah -
Willie Nelson from Songbird
Hallelujah -
Alexandra Burke from Hallelujah
Hum Hallelujah by
Fall Out Boy isn't a cover but
Hallelujah is sampled in the song.
The live recordings:
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen Cover) -
Annie Bethancourt from 2008-01-03 - LeStats Coffee House
Hallelujah -
Bob Dylan from A Legend in His Time (disc 3)
Hallelujah -
Bon Jovi from MTV Unplugged 2007
Hallelujah -
Gov't Mule from Mountain Jam 2007-06-01
Hallelujah -
Kate Voegele from Live at Kofenya, Oxford, OH, April 29, 2006
Hallelujah -
Over the Rhine from Live at The Dame, Lexington, KY, June 26, 2004
Hallelujah -
Popa Chubby from Ten Years With Popa Chubby - Best Of (Live)
Halleluja (live) -
Tina Dickow from In The Red: Live Acoustic Set At Copenhagen Jazzhouse, 24. April 2006
Halleluja (Live) -
Damien Rice from Live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 15-8-03
Hallelujah -
Gavin DeGraw from
unknown
At last some songs named "Hallelujah", that are no covers of Cohen's original, but worth listening:
Hallelujah -
Georg Friedrich Händel from Messias
Hallelujah -
Appleton from Everything's Eventual
Hallelujah -
Born from At The End Of The Day
Hallelujah -
Bethany Dillon from Imagination
Hallelujah -
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds from No More Shall We Part
Hallelujah -
Paramore from Riot!
Hallelujah -
Patty Larkin from Watch The Sky
Hallelujah -
Ryan Adams from Demolition
Hallelujah -
Shawn McDonald from Roots
...and a song with so much "Hallelujah"s that it deserves to be mentioned:
Gabriel and the Vagabond -
Foy Vance from Hope
The original lyrics from 1984 album Various Positions:
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