Intro
E F# E B F# B
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelu.....jah!
[Verse - C]
B
From the canyons of the mind we wander on and stumble blindly
G#m
Through the often-tangled maze of starless nights and sunless days
E
While asking for some kind of clue or road to lead us to the truth
F# B
But who will answer?
[Verse - C]
B
Side by side two people stand together vowing hand-in-hand
G#m
That love's imbedded in their hearts but soon an empty feeling starts
E
To overwhelm their hollow lives and when they seek the hows and whys
F# B
Who will answer?
[Verse - Am]
G#m
On a strange and distant hill a young man's lying very still
D#m
His arms will never hold his child because a bullet running wild
E
Has struck him down. And now we cry "Dear God, Oh, why, oh, why?"
F# B
But who will answer?
[Verse - Am]
G#m
High upon a lonely ledge a figure teeters near the edge
D#m
And jeering crowds collect below to egg him on with, "Go, man, go!"
E
But who will ask what led him to his private day of doom
F# B
And who will answer?
[Chorus]
E F# B G#m
If the soul is darkened by a fear it cannot name
E F# B G#m
If the mind is baffled when the rules don't fit the game
E F# E B F# B
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will an.....swer?
E F# E B F# B
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelu.....jah!
--Capo 1st fret / chords in brackets--
[Verse - C - told]
B (C#)
In the rooms of dark and shades the scent of sandalwood pervades
G#m (A#m)
The colored thoughts in muddled heads reclining in the rumpled beds
E (F#)
Of unmade dreams that can't come true and when we ask what we should do
F# (G#) B (C#)
Who... Who will answer?
[Verse - A#m]
G#m (A#m)
'Neath the spreading mushroom tree the world revolves in apathy
D#m (Fm)
As overhead, a row of specks roars on, drowned out by discotheques
E (F#)
And if a secret button's pressed because one man has been outguessed
F# (G#) B (C#)
Who will answer?
[Verse - A#m]
G#m (A#m)
Is our hope in walnut shells worn 'round the neck with temple bells
D#m (Fm)
Or deep within some cloistered walls where hooded figures pray in halls?
E (F#)
Or crumbled books on dusty shelves or in our stars, or in ourselves
F# (G#) B (C#)
Who will answer?
[Chorus]
E (F#) F# (G#) B (C#) G#m (A#m)
If the soul is darkened by a fear it cannot name
E (F#) F# (G#) B (C#) G#m (A#m)
If the mind is baffled when the rules don't fit the game
E (F#) F# (G#) E (F#) B (C#) F# (G#) B (C#)
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will an....................swer?
E (F#) F# (G#) E (F#) B (C#) F# (G#) B (C#)
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!, Hallelu....................jah!