Hallelujah, by Jeff Buckley.
This song was a Jeff Buckley song for me before it was a Leonard Cohen song, or a John Cale song, for that matter, but I love them all, so this is a cover of Jeff Buckley’s version, but thanks to my cold, the first verse and chorus is in Leonard mode.
This is literally always in, like, the top 2 songs on the website I go to for guitar chords, and I have more questions than answers about that, but I know I’ve read before stories about all the versions of this thing, and how Shrek drove it into the stratosphere, and that movie’s alright, but I don’t want to give it too much credit. I am old enough to have heard the Jeff Buckley version when it was contemporary, and I was working in record stores the summer after freshman year of college, I guess?
It’s Wonderwall-level played out, but I couldn’t play 365 songs and leave this one out.
Kinda fun to read up on the places this guy played in New York that I would underage-drink in not too long after.
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