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Song title:      Hallelujah
Original Album:	 No More Shall We Part

Words and Music by Nick Cave
Copyright © 2001 Mute Records
Published by Universal Music Group

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
Guitar 2 below emulates the violin part. Guitar 1 emulates the piano part.

[play: Guitar Figure 1a]  [x4]

Guitar Figure 1a

Guitar 2 (violin):
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------------------4h6/-7-------8________________------|
|-2-------------------4---5------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


[play: Guitar Figure 1b]  [x4]

Guitar Figure 1b

Guitar 2 (violin):

|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-----------------------------4h6/-7-------8________________------|
|-2-------------------4---5------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|                                                                 |
Guitar 1 (piano):                                                 |
  Am                               G                              |
|-5________________-------5------|-3________________-------3------|
|-5________________-------5------|-3________________-------3------|
|-5________________-------5------|-4________________-------4------|
|-7________________-------7------|-5________________-------5------|
|-7________________-------7------|-5________________-------5------|
|-5________________-------5------|-3________________-------3------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE:
Notes:
Guitar Figure 1b is the basis of the VERSEs.

Chords:
Am x02210 or 577555
G  320033 or 355433

Am                
  On the first day of May I took to the road
G
  I'd been staring out the window most of the morning
Am
  I'd watched the rain claw at the glass
      G
And a vicious wind blew hard and fast
                            Am            G
I should have taken it as a warning, as a warning,
     Am            G
As a warning, as a warning


VERSE:
I'd given my nurse the weekend off
My meals were ill-prepared
My typewriter had turned mute as a tomb
And my piano crouched in the corner of my room
With all its teeth bared, all its teeth bared,
All its teeth bared, all its teeth bared


CHORUS:
Chords:
Am x02210 or 577555
G  320033 or 355433

     Am          G  
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
     Am          G
Hallelujah, Hallelujah


[INTRUMENTAL:]

Notes:
Violin part transcribed for guitar.

Chords:
Bb x13331    C# x46664
C  x35553    Cm x35543
Am 577555    G  355433
F# 244322

  Bb              C                Am              F#
|-------------------------3------|-----------------2____________--|
|-------------3---5---6----------|--------------------------------|
|-3-------5-------------------3--|-2____________------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  Bb              C                Am              F#
|-------------------------3------|-----------------2____________--|
|-------------3---5---6----------|--------------------------------|
|-3-------5-------------------3--|-2____________------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


  Bb              C#               Cm              G
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|-------------3---6____________--|-4____________---3____________--|
|-3-------5----------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|
|--------------------------------|--------------------------------|

| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -| 1 - & - 2 - & - 3 - & - 4 - & -|


VERSE:
I left my house without my coat
Something my nurse would not have allowed
And I took the small roads out of town
And I passed a cow and the cow was brown
And my pyjamas clung to me like a shroud
Like a shroud, like a shroud, like a shroud


VERSE:
There rose before me a little house
With all hope and dreams kept within
A woman's voice close to my ear
Said, "Why don't you come in here?"
"You looked soaked to the skin"
Soaked to the skin, soaked to the skin, soaked to the skin


[repeat CHORUS]


VERSE:
I turned to the woman and the woman was young
I extended a hearty salutation
But I knew if my nurse had been here
She would never in a thousand years
Permit me to accept that invitation
That nvitation, that invitation, that invitation


VERSE:
Now, you might think it wise to risk it all
Throw caution to the reckless wind
But with her hot cocoa and her medication
My nurse had been my one salvation
So I turned back home, I turned back home,
I turned back home singing my song


[repeat CHORUS]  [x2]


OUTRO [play: x2]:

     Am
Hallelujah (The tears are welling in my eyes again)
     G
Hallelujah (I need twenty big buckets to catch them in)
     Am
Hallelujah (And twenty pretty girls to carry them down)
     G
Hallelujah (And twenty deep holes to bury them in)