{"id":658,"date":"2004-07-15T23:25:26","date_gmt":"2004-07-16T06:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=658"},"modified":"2004-07-15T23:25:26","modified_gmt":"2004-07-16T06:25:26","slug":"hallelujah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/07\/15\/hallelujah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallelujah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Listening to Jeff Buckley’s version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” I did a Google search and was surprised to find that
\nThe Hallelujah Chorus is Satanic!!!<\/a>
\nGo ahead, click on the link.
\nGood thing that Buckley’s version doesn’t have any drums! But the question is, if we aren’t to be literal, then where do we draw our lines? Why isn’t Buckley’s song canonized? It seems he knows the secret chord (E minor?)<\/p>\n

\nI heard there was a secret chord
\nthat David played and it pleased the Lord
\nBut you don’t really care for music, do you?
\nWell it goes like this :
\nThe fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift
\nThe baffled king composing Hallelujah\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But King David, probable author of many Psalms, not caring for the music? Or is it the almighty who doesn’t care for music? As the prophet Homer Jay might say, “Mmm, Sacrelicious.”
\nOn a David note: I have often wondered how my parents knew that I would have red hair (well it was red when I was a wee lad!), considering neither of my parents had red hair. Hindsight on imagined precognition is what I practice here at the Quantum Pontiff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Listening to Jeff Buckley’s version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” I did a Google search and was surprised to find that The Hallelujah Chorus is Satanic!!! Go ahead, click on the link. Good thing that Buckley’s version doesn’t have any drums! But the question is, if we aren’t to be literal, then where do we draw … <\/p>\n

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