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