Take this Waltz - guitar chords and comments
Lyrics without distraction HERE
This song was first released in 1986 as a part of the Federico García Lorca tribute album "Poet in New York" (Poeta en Nueva York), and the words are a loose translation of "Pequeño vals vienés" (Little Viennese Waltz). In 1988 it was included with Cohen's studio album "I'm Your Man", added violin and the marvellous co-vocal of Jennifer Warnes.The spanish poet's full name was Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (1898 – 1936). He was also a playwright and theatre director. He was executed by nationalists at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, and his body was never found. His works was a great inspiration to Cohen in his youth, and his daughter got the name "Lorca" after him.
C C/B Am now in Vienna there's ten pretty women C Em Am there's a shoulder where death comes to cry F G there's a lobby with nine hundred windows F C ...E7 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 Bdim Am take this waltz take this waltz D F take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws [G ... Am ... G ... G7] Am this waltz this waltz this waltz this waltz Dm Am with its very own breath of brandy and death Dm C dragging its tail in the sea
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