Hallelujah (Gali Atari and Milk & Honey song) Hallelujah (Gali Atari and Milk & Honey song) "Hallelujah" (Hebrew script: ) was the winning song of the Eurovision Song Contest 1979, performed in Hebrew by Gali Atari and Milk & Honey for Israel. The group was formed for the purpose of performing in the contest when the song's original performers, the band Hakol Over Habibi (similarly made up of a female lead vocalist and three male backing vocalists), declined the opportunity to sing it. This was the fourth occasion on which the host country had won the contest (Switzerland, Spain and Luxembourg had achieved the feat before this) and
Milk and Toast and Honey six months before writing it down and recording a demo in his Tits & Ass recording studio in Halmstad. Vocalist Marie Fredriksson assumed the song would be "a piece of cake to sing, but had to work harder than on any other Roxette track to find the magic moment." According to Ultimate Guitar, "Milk and Toast and Honey" has a moderately fast tempo of 141 beats per minute. The verse is composed of two repetitions of C–Em–Am–C–F–C–G, with the pre-chorus consisting of two short bars of F–C–G. The first chorus is made up of two sequences of C–F–Am–G, with subsequent