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[Intro]
GDsus4DD
[Verse 1]
GGEmEm
Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
GBmEmEm
There's a shoulder where death comes to cry
CCDD
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
CC *Bm *AmGB7
There's a tree where the doves go to die
EmEmEmEm
There's a piece that was torn from the morning
AmE7AmAm *G
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
CC *G *AmGG
Ay, ay, ay, ay
B7B7EmEm
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am7Am7CC
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
DEmDD
[Verse 2]
GBmEmEm
Oh, I want you, I want you, I want you
GGEmEm
On a chair with a dead magazine
CCDD
In the cave at the tip of the lily
CC *Bm *AmGB7
In some hallways where love's ne-ver been
EmEmEmEm
On a bed where the moon has been sweating
AmE7AmAm *G
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
CC *G *AmGG
Ay, ay, ay, ay
B7B7E7E7
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am7Am7CC
Take its broken waist in your hand
CdimD#dimEmB7
[Chorus]
EmEmEmEm
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
AmAmEmEm
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Am7Am7GG
Dragging its tail in the sea
Dsus4D
[Verse 3]
GGEmEm
There's a concert hall in Vienna
GBmEmEm
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
CCDD
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
CC *Bm *AmGB7
They've been sentenced to death by the blues
EmEmEmEm
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
AmE7AmAm *G
With a garland of freshly cut tears?
CC *G *AmGG
Ay, ay, ay, ay
B7B7EmEm
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am7Am7CC
Take this waltz, it's been dying for years
GGDD
[Verse 4]
GBmEmEm
There's an attic where children are playing
GGEmEm
Where I've got to lie down with you soon
CCDD
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
CC *Bm *AmGB7
In the mist of some sweet af-ter-noon
EmEmEmEm
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
AmE7AmAm *G
All your sheep and your lilies of snow
CC *G *AmGG
Ay, ay, ay, ay
B7B7E7E7
Take this waltz, take this waltz
Am7Am7CC
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
CdimD#dimEmB7
[Chorus]
EmEmEmEm
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
AmAmEmEm
With its very own breath of brandy and death
Am7Am7GG
Dragging its tail in the sea
Dsus4D
[Verse 5]
GGEmEm
And I'll dance with you in Vienna
GBmEmEm
I'll be wearing a river's disguise
CCDD
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
CC *Bm *AmGG
My mouth on the dew of your thighs
GGEmEm
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook
GBmEmEm
With the photographs there and the moss
CCDD
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
CC *Bm *AmGB7
My cheap violin and my cross
EmEmEmEm
And you'll carry me down on your dancing
AmE7AmAm
To the pools that you lift on your wrist
*GCC *G *AmGG
Oh, my love, oh, my love
B7B7EmEm
Take this waltz, take this waltz
AmAmCC
It's yours now, it's all that there is
GGDD
[Outro]
GGEmEm
La, la, la... La, la, la...
GBmEmEm
La, la, la... La, la, la...
CCDD
La, la, la... La, la, la...
CC *Bm *AmGB7
La, la, la... La, la, la...
EmEmEmEm
La, la, la... La, la, la...
AmE7AmAm *G
La, la, la... La, la, la...
CC *G *AmGG
Ay, ay, ay, ay
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