Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz (Guitar)

         B                        G#m
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women

          B               D#m/A#          G#m
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry

          E                        F#
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows

          E               E    D#m C#m B   D#7/A#
There's a tree where the doves go to die

           G#m
There's a piece that was torn from the morning

        C#m          G#7        C#m . . |. . B/D# |
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost

E  B/D# C#m B
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay

           D#7/G            G#m
Take this waltz, take this waltz

           C#/F                        E . . |. . . |
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

      B           D#m/A#       G#m
Oh I want you, I want you, 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              E   D#m C#m  B   D#7/A#
In some hallways where love's never been

     G#m
On a bed where the moon has been sweating

     C#m              G#7           C#m . . |. . B/D# |
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand

E  B/D# C#m B
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay

           D#7/G            G#7/F#
Take this waltz, take this waltz

           E6                  Fm7-5 . . |. . . |
Take its broken waist in your hand

      G#m
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz

          C#m                G#m
With its very own breath of brandy and Death

  E6                      B . . |. . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . |
Dragging its tail in the sea

           B                G#m
There's a concert hall in Vienna

           B             D#m/A#    G#m
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews

           E                               F#
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking

              E              E  D#m C#m  B    D#7/A#
They've been sentenced to death by the blues

        G#m
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture

        C#m         G#7        C#m . . |. . B/D# |
With a garland of freshly cut tears?

E  B/D# C#m B
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay

           D#7/G            G#m
Take this waltz, take this waltz

           C#m                       E . . |. . . |
Take this waltz it's been dying for years

            B            D#m/A#        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             E D#m C#m B    D#7/A#
In the mist of some sweet afternoon

         G#m
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow

         C#m             G#7        C#m . . |. . B/D# |
All your sheep and your lilies of snow

E  B/D# C#m B
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay

           D#7/G            G#7/F#
Take this waltz, take this waltz

                E6                     Fm7-5 . . |. . . |
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

      G#m
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz

          C#m                G#m
With its very own breath of brandy and Death

  E6                      B . . |. . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . |
Dragging its tail in the sea

          B                  G#m
And I'll dance with you in Vienna

          B        D#m/A#     G#m
I'll be wearing a river's disguise

      E                   F#
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder

     E           E  D#m C#m   B
My mouth on the dew of your thighs

          B                  G#m
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook

           B              D#m/A#     G#m
With the photographs there, and the moss

          E                          F#
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty

     E       E  D#m C#m  B    D#7/A#
My cheap violin and my cross

            G#m
And you'll carry me down on your dancing

        C#m            G#7           C#m
To the pools that you lift on your wrist

C#m B/D# E  B/D# C#m B
Oh my love, Oh my love

           D#7/G            G#m
Take this waltz, take this waltz

      C#m                           E . . |. . . |
It's yours now, it's all that there is

 B           G#m
La, la, la... La, la, la...

 B      D#m/A# G#m
La, la, la... La, la, la...

 E             F#
La, la, la... La, la, la...

 E  E  D#m C#m B            D#7/A#
La, la, la... La, la, la...

 G#m
La, la, la... La, la, la...

 C#m    G#7    C#m         C#m B/D#
La, la, la... La, la, la...

E  B/D# C#m B      D#7/G
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay