Leonard Cohen

Take This Waltz

Leonard Cohen


Tom: Am

[Intro/Bridge 3]
  C                  G4         G
E|---3--3-|---3--3--|----3--3-|---3--3--|
B|---5--5-|---5--5--|----3--3-|---3--3--|
G|---5--5-|---5--5--|----5--5-|---4--4--| x2
D|--------|---------|---------|---------|
A|-3------|-3-------|---------|---------|
E|--------|---------|--3------|-3-------| |

[Verse]
   C                   C           Am              C               E7/h            Am
E|-------0--0--------|-----0--0--|----0---0------|-----0----0----|-----0---0-----|-----0----0---|
B|-------1--1--------|-----1--1--|----1---1------|-----1----1----|-----0---0-----|-----1----1---|
G|-------0--0--------|-----0--0--|----2---2------|-----0----0----|-----1---1-----|-----2----2---|
D|-------------------|-----------|---------------|---------------|---------------|--------------|
A|-----3-------------|--3--------|-0-------------|--3------------|--2------------|--0-----------|
E|-------------------|-----------|---------------|---------------|---------------|--------------|

Now in Vienna there`s  ten pretty woman.There`s a  shoulder where  death comes to  cry. There`s a

   F                           G                  F                             C
E|-----1---1--|-----1---1----|-----3----3-------|------1---1----|------------|------0----0---|
B|-----1---1--|-----1---1----|-----3----3-------|------1---1----|------------|------1----1---|
G|-----2---2--|-----2---2----|-----4----4-------|------2---2----|------------|------0----0---|
D|------------|--------------|------------------|---------------|--3---2---0-|---------------|
A|------------|--------------|------------------|---------------|------------|--3------------|
E|--1---------|--1-----------|--3---------------|--1------------|------------|---------------|

   lobby with   nine hundread  windows. There`s a tree where the  doves go to  die. There`s a

   Am                                             Dm          A7            Dm
E|------0---0----|-----0---0----|-----0----0----|-----1---1--|-----0---0--|-----1--1--|-----1--1--|
B|------1---1----|-----1---1----|-----1----1----|-----3---3--|-----2---2--|-----3--3--|-----3--3--|
G|------2---2----|-----2---2----|-----2----2----|-----2---2--|-----0---0--|-----2--2--|-----2--2--|
D|---------------|--------------|---------------|--0---------|------------|--0--------|--0--------|
A|--0------------|--0-----------|--0------------|------------|--0---------|-----------|-----------|
E|---------------|--------------|---------------|------------|------------|-----------|-----------|

   piece that was  torn from the  morning and it  hangs in the gallery  of  frost

[Refrain 1]
   F                      C              E7                Am                Dm7
E|----1---1--|----------|-----0---0----|-----4----4------|------0----0-----|-------1-----1---------------|
B|----1---1--|----------|-----1---1----|-----3----3------|------1----1-----|-------1-----1---------------|
G|----2---2--|----------|-----0---0----|-----4----4------|------2----2-----|-------2-----2---------------|
D|-----------|-3--2--0--|--------------|--2--------------|-----------------|--0--------------------------|
A|-----------|----------|--3-----------|-----------------|--0--------------|-----------------------------|
E|-1---------|----------|--------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------------------|
   Ay             Ay Ay   Ay. Take this  waltz, take this  waltz. Take this  waltz with the clamp on it`s
  
  F            Bridge 1    G          Am7       G/d        
E|-----1--1--|-----1--1--|----3--3--|---5--5--|----3--3--|----3--3--|-------------|
B|-----1--1--|-----1--1--|----3--3--|---5--5--|----3--3--|----3--3--|-------------|
G|-----2--2--|-----2--2--|----4--4--|---5--5--|----4--4--|----4--4--|-------------|
D|-----------|-----------|----------|---------|----------|--5-------|--3--2--0----|
A|-----------|-----------|----------|---------|--5-------|----------|-------------|
E|--1--------|--1--------|--3-------|-5-------|----------|----------|-------------|
  jaws

[Refrain 2]
   F                      C              E7                A                 F6
E|----1---1--|----------|-----0---0----|-----4----4------|------0----0-----|-------1-----1------|----3--3---|
B|----1---1--|----------|-----1---1----|-----3----3------|------2----2-----|-------3-----3------|----3--3---|
G|----2---2--|----------|-----0---0----|-----4----4------|------2----2-----|-------2-----2------|----4--4---|
D|-----------|-3--2--0--|--------------|--2--------------|-----------------|--------------------|-----------|
A|-----------|----------|--3-----------|-----------------|--0--------------|--------------------|-----------|
E|-1---------|----------|--------------|-----------------|-----------------|--1-----------------|--3--------|
   Ay             Ay Ay   Ay. Take this  waltz, take this  waltz. Take it`s  broken waist in your hand
  
 [Bridge 2]   Fdim         Bdim        Am7        E7          Am           
E|----3--3--|-----4--4--|-----7--7--|----5--5--|-----4--4--|----0--0----|-----0--0---|----0--0--|
B|----3--3--|-----3--3--|-----6--6--|----5--5--|-----3--3--|----1--1----|-----1--1---|----1--1--|
G|----4--4--|-----4--4--|-----7--7--|----5--5--|-----4--4--|----2--2----|-----2--2---|----2--2--|
D|----------|--3--------|--6--------|----------|--2--------|------------|------------|----------|
A|----------|-----------|-----------|----------|-----------|-0----------|--0---------|--0-------|
E|--3-------|-----------|-----------|--5-------|-----------|------------|------------|----------|
                                                  This   waltz, this  waltz, this  waltz this

  Am                 Dm                  Am                F6                       C (Bridge 3/Intro)
E|-----0----0-----|------1----1------|------0----0-----|------1-----1------------|-----3---3-----|
B|-----1----1-----|------3----3------|------1----1-----|------3-----3------------|-----4---4-----|
G|-----2----2-----|------2----2------|------2----2-----|------2-----2------------|-----4---4-----|
D|----------------|--0---------------|-----------------|-------------------------|---------------|
A|--0-------------|------------------|--0--------------|-------------------------|--3------------|
E|----------------|------------------|-----------------|--1----------------------|---------------|
   waltz, with its  very own breath of  brandy and death. Dragging its tail in the  sea


[Intro/Bridge 3]
       C                         Am       
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
          C              E7             Am
There's a shoulder where death comes to cry
          F                       G
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
          F                          C
There's a tree where the doves go to die
          Am         
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
       Dm           A7         Dm 
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost

[Refrain 1]
F              C
Aey, aey, aey, aey
          E7               Am
Take this waltz, take this waltz
           Dm7                        F           
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

[Verse]
     C           E7          Am
Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
     C                     Am
On a chair with a dead magazine  
       F                      G
In the cave at the tip of the lily
        F                          C
In some hallway where love's never been
     Am
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
     Dm              A7            Dm
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand

[Refrain 2]
F              C
Aey, aey, aey, aey
          E7               A
Take this waltz, take this waltz
         F6                   G          Bridge 2
Take its broken waist in your hand
     Am 
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
         Dm                 Am
With its very own breath of brandy and death
F6                       C      Intro/Bridge 3
Dragging its tail in the sea

[Verse]
There's a concert hall in Vienna
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
But who is it climbs to your picture
With a garland of freshly cut tears?

[Refrain 1]
Aey, aey, aey, aey
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Take this waltz it's been dying for years

[Verse]
There's an attic where children are playing
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
All your sheep and your lilies of snow

[Refrain 2]
Aey, aey, aey, aey
Take this waltz, take this waltz
With its, I'll never forget you, you know
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Dragging its tail in the sea

And I'll dance with you in Vienna
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook
With the photographs there, and the moss

         F                          G
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
   F                   C
My cheap violin and my cross
           Am  
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
       Dm             A7           Dm
To the pools that you lift on your wrist

[Refrain 1]
Oh my love, oh my love
Take this waltz, take this waltz
It's yours now, it's all that there is