Take This Waltz chords by Leonard Cohen
Verse 1
B
F#
B
Now in Vienna
G#m
there's ten pretty women
B
There's a shoulder
D#m
G#m
where Death comes to cry
E
F#
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
E
There's a tree
B
D#
where the doves go to die
G#m
There's a piece
that was torn from the morning
C#m
G#
C#m
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
Chorus 1
E
B
Aey, aey, aey, aey
D#
G#m
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#
E
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
F#
C#
F#
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Verse 2
B
D#m
Oh, I want you, I want you,
G#m
I want you
B
G#m
On a chair with a dead magazine
E
F#
In the cave at the tip of the lily
E
In some hallway
B
D#
where love's never been
G#m
On a bed
where the moon has been sweating
C#m
In a cry
G#
C#m
filled with footsteps and sand
Chorus 2
E
B
Aey, aey, aey, aey
D#
G#
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#m
C#
Take its broken waist in your hand
E
D#
G#m
D#
Bridge 1
G#m
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
C#m
G#m
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Em
B
F#
Dragging its tail in the sea
Verse 3
B
G#m
There's a concert hall in Vienna
B
D#m
G#m
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
E
There's a bar
F#
where the boys have stopped talking
E
They've been sentenced to death
B
D#
by the blues
G#m
Ah, but who is it
climbs to your picture
C#m
G#
C#m
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
Chorus 3
E
B
Aey, aey, aey, aey
D#
G#m
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#m
E
Take this waltz, it's been dying for years
B
F#
Verse 4
B
D#m
G#m
There's an attic where children are playing
B
G#m
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
E
F#
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
E
In the mist
B
D#
of some sweet afternoon
G#m
And I'll see what
you've chained to your sorrow
C#m
G#
C#m
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
Chorus 4
E
B
Aey, aey, aey, aey
D#
G#
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#m
C#
With its "I'll never forget you, you know"
E
D#
G#m
D#
Bridge 2
G#m
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
C#m
G#m
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Em
B
F#
Dragging its tail in the sea
Verse 5
B
G#m
And I'll dance with you in Vienna
B
D#m
G#m
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
E
F#
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
E
B
F#
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
B
And I'll bury my soul
G#m
in a scrapbook
B
D#m
With the photographs there,
G#m
and the moss
E
F#
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
E
B
D#
My cheap violin and my cross
G#m
And you'll carry me down
on your dancing
C#m
G#
C#m
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
Chorus 5
E
B
Oh my love, oh my love
D#
G#m
Take this waltz, take this waltz
C#m
E
B
F#
It's yours now, it's all that there is
Outro 1
B
G#m
(La-la-la, la-la-la)
B
D#m
G#m
(La-la-la, la-la-la)
E
F#
(La-la-la, la-la-la)
E
B
D#
(La-la-la, la-la-la)
G#m
(La-la-la, la-la-la)
C#m
G#
C#m
(La-la-la, la-la-la)
E
B
(Aey, aey, aey, aey)
D#
G#m
[Fade out]
Take This Waltz
Leonard Cohen
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