Take this waltz
[Intro] C . . |Gsus4 . . |G . . |. . . |
[Verses]
C Am
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
C Em/B Am
There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
F G
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
F F Em Dm C E7/B
There's a tree where the doves go to die
Am
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
Dm A7 Dm . . |. . C/E |
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
F C/E Dm C
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
E7/G# Am
Take this waltz, take this waltz
D/F# F . . |. . . |
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
G . . |Am . . |G/B . . |G . . |
C Em/B 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 F Em Dm C E7/B
In some hallways where love's never been
Am
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
Dm A7 Dm . . |. . C/E |
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
F C/E Dm C
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
E7/G# A7/G
Take this waltz, take this waltz
F6 F#m7-5 . . |. . . |
Take its broken waist in your hand
Fdim . . |G#dim . . |Am . . |E . . |
Am
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
Dm Am
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
F6 C . . |. . . |Gsus4 . . |G . . |
Dragging its tail in the sea
C Am
There's a concert hall in Vienna
C Em/B Am
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
F G
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
F F Em Dm C E7/B
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
Am
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
Dm A7 Dm . . |. . C/E |
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
F C/E Dm C
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
E7/G# Am
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Dm F . . |. . . |
Take this waltz it's been dying for years
C . . |. . . |G . . |. . . |
C Em/B Am
There's an attic where children are playing
C Am
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
F G
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
F F Em Dm C E7/B
In the mist of some sweet afternoon
Am
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
Dm A7 Dm . . |. . C/E |
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
F C/E Dm C
Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
E7/G# A7/G
Take this waltz, take this waltz
F6 F#m7-5 . . |. . . |
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
Fdim . . |G#dim . . |Am . . |E . . |
Am
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
Dm Am
With its very own breath of brandy and Death
F6 C . . |. . . |Gsus4 . . |G . . |
Dragging its tail in the sea
C Am
And I'll dance with you in Vienna
C Em/B Am
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
F G
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
F F Em Dm C
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
C Am
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook
C Em/B Am
With the photographs there, and the moss
F G
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
F F Em Dm C E7/B
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
Dm C/E F C/E Dm C
Oh my love, Oh my love
E7/G# Am
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Dm F . . |. . . |
It's yours now, it's all that there is
C . . |. . . |G . . |. . . |
C Am
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C Em/B Am
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