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Intro: B . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . |. . . | 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 F# . . |G#m . . |F#/a# . . |F# . . | 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 [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/l/leonard-cohen/294451.html ] Edim . . |Gdim . . |G#m . . |D# . . | 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 . . |. . . |F# . . |. . . | 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!" Edim . . |Gdim . . |G#m . . |D# . . | 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 . . |. . . |F# . . |. . . | 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 |