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Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz Chords

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Take This Waltz Chords

(ver. 1)
Leonard Cohen
[Intro]

G Dsus4 D


[Verse 1]

         G                        Em
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
            G             Bm             Em
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
           C                       D
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
            C                 (Bm Am) G     B7
There's a tree where the doves go to die
           Em
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
        Am           E7          Am  (G)
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
C   (G  Am) G
Ay, ay, ay, ay
           B7               Em
Take this waltz, take this waltz
           A                           C
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

D Em D


[Verse 2]

      G           Bm          Em
Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
       G                   Em
On a chair with a dead magazine
        C                      D
In the cave at the tip of the lily
         C                   (Bm Am) G      B7
In some hallways where love's never been
      Em
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
      Am              E7            Am  (G)
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
C   (G  Am) G
Ay, ay, ay, ay
           B7               Em
Take this waltz, take this waltz
          C6                  C#m7
Take its broken waist in your hand

Cdim D#dim Em B


[Chorus]

      Em
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
          Am                  Em
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
  C6                      G
Dragging its tail in the sea

Dsus4 D


[Verse 3]

           G               Em
There's a concert hall in Vienna
            G            Bm        Em
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
           C                               D
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
              C                 (Bm Am)  G    B7
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
         Em
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
        Am          E7         Am    (G)
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
C   (G  Am) G
Ay, ay, ay, ay
           B7               Em
Take this waltz, take this waltz
           A                         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               (Bm Am) G      B7
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
          Em
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
           Am            E7         Am   (G)
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
C   (G  Am) G
Ay, ay, ay, ay
           B7               Em
Take this waltz, take this waltz
                C6                    C#m7
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

Cdim D#dim Em B


[Chorus]

      Em
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
          Am                  Em
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
  C6                      G
Dragging its tail in the sea

Dsus4 D


[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              (Bm Am)    G
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
          G                   Em
And I'll bury my soul in a scr*pbook,
           G          Bm             Em
With the photographs there, and the moss
           C                         D
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
     C         (Bm  Am)  G      B7
My cheap violin and my cross
            Em
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
        Am             E7            Am
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
  (G)  C   (G  Am) G
Oh my love, oh my love
           B7               Em
Take this waltz, take this waltz
      Am                            C
It's yours now. It's all that there is

G D


[Outro]

 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      (Bm Am) G             B7
La, la, la...  La, la, la...
Em
La, la, la...  La, la, la...
Am         E7  Am           (G)
La, la, la...  La, la, la...
C   (G  Am) G
Ay, ay, ay, ay

B7 Em
Am C

G            
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