[I] Filk- Hallelujah

[Daibhid Ceanaideach]

Mightily Oats's Hallelujah

TTO Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

I heard there was a sacred word,
The Great Om spoke and Brutha heard,
But I don't know it happened, and nor do ya.
It starts like that; a doubt, a qualm,
A questioning, a shattered calm,
My baffled mind recites the Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Your faith was strong, you had no doubt,
You carried your shelled god about,
His presence in the desert drew strength to ya.
While I seek answers everywhere,
And simply find more questions there,
But through my lips still force the Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

I faced the vampire once before,
At Lancre Castle's kitchen door,
Uncertainty can stop them try to rule ya.
As I read out the sacred word,
Count Magpyr called me quite absurd,
And told me that he wrote the Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

There was a time Om let us know,
What was His will for us below.
But now it's just inside that He talks to ya.
When Vorbis wanted Brutha dead,
A tortoise landed on his head,
And everyone was singing Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Maybe Om exists or not,
I've learnt to work with what I've got,
An axe may not be holy, but goes through ya.
And so I'll do what I think right,
And in the darkness make some light,
With nothing on my lips but Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

--
Dave
"All those with psychokinesis, raise my hand."
The Room With No Doors, Kate Orman

[Reader in Invisible Writings]

Daibhid Ceanaideach wrote:
> Mightily Oats's Hallelujah
>
> TTO Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
>

<SNIP>
What can I say but...
>
> Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
> Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
>
To ya

--
Reader in Invisible Writings.. Something to Ponder upon!

[Richard Bos]

Daibhid Ceanaideach <daibhidc...@aol.com> wrote:

> Mightily Oats's Hallelujah
>
> TTO Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen

> Hallelujah, Hallelujah,
> Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Amen, Brutha.

Richard

[Daibhid Ceanaideach]

On 16 Aug 2009, A.Reader <anony...@example.com> wrote:

> Outstanding. You really have a gift!

Thanks everyone.

This is something I've been working on since Christmas, when the dreadful
Alexandra Burke version was in the charts. Normally, if I haven't got a
filk worked out by the end of a week or so, I give up on it, but I was
pleased enough with the bits I had (the opening lines of the first two
verses and the end of the fourth verse) to keep plugging away at it.

It occurs to me that, in the tradition of the original, I should probably
*keep* adding verses to it whenever I think of them...

[Sean Cleary]

On Aug 16, 5:56 am, Daibhid Ceanaideach <daibhidchened...@aol.com>
wrote:

Awesome! I posted a link to this in R.M.Filk.
Sean

[Sean Cleary]

And rmf sends its applause:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.filk/browse_thread/thread/b3ee17ade3e6f015?hl=en#

[Daibhid Ceanaideach]

Thanks! Good to know people like it.