Hallelujah (or Hallelul-you)

Leonard in London, 2009. Click to go there

Listen above. Then have a look at Eric Weinstein talking to Lex Fridman about Leonard Cohen, and Hallelujah in particular. And then re-listen to Leonard.

What strikes me is Cohen pronouncing every "you" as "yew", at the end of the line. Not as "yah", which I'd always remembered it, and as Jeff Buckley pronounces it. And as seems right, given the rhyme with "hallelujah". 

Why does he do that? Maybe it's Cohen being Canadian. Being Nice. Being Proper. Being Correct. Then again... This is the guy that hung out in the Chelsea Hotel, before it was the Chelsea Hotel of folklore.

IMHO: “you” should be pronounced “yah", not "yew". Otherwise, it's “Hallelul-you”…