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Take This Waltz chords by
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen

Verse 1
G
D

G

Now in Vienna
Em

there's ten pretty women
G

There's a shoulder
Bm
Em

where Death comes to cry
C
D

There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
C

There's a tree
G
B

where the doves go to die
Em

There's a piece

that was torn from the morning
Am
E
Am

And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
Chorus 1
C
G

Aey, aey, aey, aey
B
Em

Take this waltz, take this waltz
A
C

Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
D
A
D

Verse 2
G
Bm

Oh, I want you, I want you,
Em

I want you
G
Em

On a chair with a dead magazine
C
D

In the cave at the tip of the lily
C

In some hallway
G
B

where love's never been
Em

On a bed

where the moon has been sweating
Am

In a cry
E
Am

filled with footsteps and sand
Chorus 2
C
G

Aey, aey, aey, aey
B
E

Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am
A

Take its broken waist in your hand
C
B
Em
B

Bridge 1
Em

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
Am
Em

With its very own breath of brandy and death
Cm
G
D

Dragging its tail in the sea
Verse 3
G
Em

There's a concert hall in Vienna
G
Bm
Em

Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
C

There's a bar
D

where the boys have stopped talking
C

They've been sentenced to death
G
B

by the blues
Em

Ah, but who is it

climbs to your picture
Am
E
Am

With a garland of freshly cut tears?
Chorus 3
C
G

Aey, aey, aey, aey
B
Em

Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am
C

Take this waltz, it's been dying for years
G
D

Verse 4
G
Bm
Em

There's an attic where children are playing
G
Em

Where I've got to lie down with you soon
C
D

In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
C

In the mist
G
B

of some sweet afternoon
Em

And I'll see what

you've chained to your sorrow
Am
E
Am

All your sheep and your lilies of snow
Chorus 4
C
G

Aey, aey, aey, aey
B
E

Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am
A

With its "I'll never forget you, you know"
C
B
Em
B

Bridge 2
Em

This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
Am
Em

With its very own breath of brandy and death
Cm
G
D

Dragging its tail in the sea
Verse 5
G
Em

And I'll dance with you in Vienna
G
Bm
Em

I'll be wearing a river's disguise
C
D

The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
C
G
D

My mouth on the dew of your thighs
G

And I'll bury my soul
Em

in a scrapbook
G
Bm

With the photographs there,
Em

and the moss
C
D

And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
C
G
B

My cheap violin and my cross
Em

And you'll carry me down

on your dancing
Am
E
Am

To the pools that you lift on your wrist
Chorus 5
C
G

Oh my love, oh my love
B
Em

Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am
C
G
D

It's yours now, it's all that there is
Outro 1
G
Em

(La-la-la, la-la-la)
G
Bm
Em

(La-la-la, la-la-la)
C
D

(La-la-la, la-la-la)
C
G
B

(La-la-la, la-la-la)
Em

(La-la-la, la-la-la)
Am
E
Am

(La-la-la, la-la-la)
C
G

(Aey, aey, aey, aey)
B
Em

[Fade out]

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Chords
  • G

  • D

  • Em

  • Bm

    2
  • C

  • B

    2
  • Am

  • E

  • A

  • Cm

    3

Capo: 4

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