Aniseed Balls

When I first heard Leonard Cohen's famous song Hallelujah , I thought the last line of the first verse was The barefoot king composing Hallelujah This makes sense in reference to 2 Samuel 15:30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up. But all the lyric sources on the internet including Cohen's official site have the line as The baffled king composing Hallelujah which makes no sense whatever in the context of the verse.  Can anyone suggest why David might have been baffled rather than barefoot?  Does anyone have evidence to suggest that the words have been changed through error?

In the early years of BBC sports coverage, commentators were found simply by asking around for someone with the ‘right sort of background’. The result was that viewers were saddled for many years with sensationally bad commentary from totally unsuitable broadcasters. In tennis we were landed with Dan Maskell, in Formula 1 we had to endure Murray Walker and even a golf enthusiast does not deserve Peter Alliss. In snooker we had Ted Lowe foisted on us, and also Jack Karnehm, both pretty much as bad as one another. Ted Lowe is remembered mainly for saying, “and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green”. When the new breed of commentators started in the 90s, they had a stumbling inception. Their lack of experience was evident. John Virgo’s commentary seemed all at odds with the play, his attempts at humour fell flat and he didn’t know when to stop talking. Neither did Willie Thorne, whose comprehensive dissection of every shot was like the too