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You need something like this:

I clicked over (source) and saw these:

welp

here it is

the final damning evidence that i have no life whatsoever

just imagine 

SKÁLD - Níu

@panimauser showed me this song called Níu (Nine), because I have been around the internet with a nick Niu for a small eternity.

♥  Dreamtune One  ♥

Artist: Flowers for Bodysnatchers

Song: Prisoner of Night and Fog

(Saro)

So today I figured out that you can sing Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” to Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” if you allow for three things, none of them unusual in music:

1) every third line of each verse in “Jolene,” you have to allow for an unstressed final syllable for the “yah” of “Hallelujah.”

2) The chorus you have to match syllable to syllable, so you only get two “Hallelujah”s to every four “Jolene”s. (”Ha-leh, lu-yah, Ha-le-lu-YAAAAH!”)

3) “I’m beggin of you please don’t take my man” etc is just replaced by the last line of the verse you just sang (“and from your lips she drew a hallelujah,” for example)

I think this also means you can reverse it, and sing Jolene to Hallelujah, so long as you start on the first verse, rather than the chorus that starts the song.

I eagerly await recordings of this to start appearing all over the internet.

ETA: I went and looked and someone has done basically this, but didn’t do the chorus the way it should be done I did it:

I heard there was a secret chord Joleeeeeeeeeene, Joleeeeeene That David played and it pleased the Lord Joleeeeeeeeeene, Joleeeeeeeeeeeene But you don’t really care for music dooo youuu I’m begging of you please don’t take my ma-an

And then after a bit you move into the Hallelujah, where you sing the verse instead: 

Hallelujah Your beauty is Hallelujah Beyond compare Hallelujah With flaming locks Hallelujah Of auburn hair

After that it gets dicey because you’ve got an extra line in Jolene that doesn’t exist in Hallelujah (which is why the guy in the above video repeats a line, because he’s not doing it your, which I agree is the more practical and better, way of altering the Hallelujahs), but if you cut a bit of the ode to Jolene’s beauty you can use the third line in the next verse (”And I cannot compete with you Jolene”) to match up to “Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you”. And so forth. 

I think it would actually be pretty astounding to slightly rearrange Jolene and sing it as a duet with Hallelujah to Leonard Cohen’s actual melody. 

Ludo- Love Me Dead

(Saint Mesa)

you play the part of savior/