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