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