Leonard Cohen - Take this waltz

Now in Vi^Benna there's ten pretty w^G#momen B D#m/A# G#m There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry There's a ^Elobby with nine hundred w^F#indows E E D#m C#m B D#7/A# There's a tree where the doves go to die There's a p^G#miece that was torn from the morning C#m G#7 C#m . . |. . B/D# | And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost ^EAy,^B/D# Ay, ^C#mAy, ^BAy D#7/G G#m Take this waltz, take this waltz C#/F E . . |. . . | Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws

On a ch^Bair with a dead magaz^G#mine In the c^Eave at the tip of the l^F#ily E E D#m C#m B D#7/A# In some hallways where love's never been On a ^G#mbed where the moon has been sweating C#m G#7 C#m . . |. . B/D# | In a cry filled with footsteps and sand ^EAy,^B/D# Ay, ^C#mAy, ^BAy D#7/G G#7/F# Take this waltz, take this waltz E6 Fm7-5 . . |. . . | Take its broken waist in your hand

This w^G#maltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz With its v^C#mery own breath of b^G#mrandy and Death E6 B . . |. . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . | Dragging its tail in the sea There's a c^Boncert hall in Vi^G#menna B D#m/A# G#m Where your mouth had a thousand reviews There's a b^Ear where the boys have stopped t^F#alking E E D#m C#m B D#7/A# They've been sentenced to death by the blues Ah, but ^G#mwho is it climbs to your picture C#m G#7 C#m . . |. . B/D# | With a garland of freshly cut tears? ^EAy,^B/D# Ay, ^C#mAy, ^BAy D#7/G G#m Take this waltz, take this waltz C#m E . . |. . . | Take this waltz it's been dying for years

Where I've g^Bot to lie down with you s^G#moon In a d^Eream of Hungarian la^F#nterns E E D#m C#m B D#7/A# In the mist of some sweet afternoon And I'll ^G#msee what you've chained to your sorrow C#m G#7 C#m . . |. . B/D# | All your sheep and your lilies of snow ^EAy,^B/D# Ay, ^C#mAy, ^BAy D#7/G G#7/F# Take this waltz, take this waltz E6 Fm7-5 . . |. . . | With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"

This w^G#maltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz With its v^C#mery own breath of b^G#mrandy and Death E6 B . . |. . . |F#sus4 . . |F# . . | Dragging its tail in the sea And I'll d^Bance with you in Vi^G#menna B D#m/A# G#m I'll be wearing a river's disguise The hy^Eacinth wild on my sh^F#oulder My mo^Euth on the d^Eew ^D#mof y^C#mour th^Bighs And I'll b^Bury my soul in a sc^G#mrapbook B D#m/A# G#m With the photographs there, and the moss And I'll y^Eield to the flood of your b^F#eauty E E D#m C#m B D#7/A# My cheap violin and my cross And you'll c^G#marry me down on your dancing To the p^C#mools that you l^G#7ift on your wr^C#mist ^C#mOh m^B/D#y lov^Ee, ^B/D#Oh my^C#m lov^Be D#7/G G#m Take this waltz, take this waltz C#m E . . |. . . | It's yours now, it's all that there is

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