Leonard Cohen – Take This Waltz chords

Intro: B . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . |. . . |

         B                        G#mNow in Vienna there's ten pretty women
          B               D#m/a#          G#mThere'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#mThere'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 BAy, Ay, Ay, Ay
           D#7/g            G#mTake 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#mOh I want you, I want you, I want you
       B                    G#mOn 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#mOn 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 BAy, 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

Edim . . |Gdim . . |G#m . . |D# . . |
      G#mThis waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
          C#m                G#mWith its very own breath of brandy and Death
  E6                      B . . |. . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . |Dragging its tail in the sea
           B                G#mThere's a concert hall in Vienna
           B             D#m/a#    G#mWhere 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#mAh, 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 BAy, Ay, Ay, Ay
           D#7/g            G#mTake this waltz, take this waltz
           C#m                       E . . |. . . |Take this waltz it's been dying for years

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            B            D#m/a#        G#mThere's an attic where children are playing
            B                        G#mWhere 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#mAnd 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 BAy, 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#mThis waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
          C#m                G#mWith its very own breath of brandy and Death
  E6                      B . . |. . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . |Dragging its tail in the sea
          B                  G#mAnd I'll dance with you in Vienna
          B        D#m/a#     G#mI'll be wearing a river's disguise
      E                   F#The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
     E           E  D#m C#m   BMy mouth on the dew of your thighs
          B                  G#mAnd I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook
           B              D#m/a#     G#mWith 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#mAnd you'll carry me down on your dancing
        C#m            G#7           C#mTo the pools that you lift on your wrist
C#m B/d# E  B/d# C#m BOh my love, Oh my love
           D#7/g            G#mTake this waltz, take this waltz
      C#m                           E . . |. . . |It's yours now, it's all that there is

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 B           G#mLa, la, la... La, la, la...
 B      D#m/a# G#mLa, 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#mLa, 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/gAy, Ay, Ay, Ay