[Intro ]
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verse 1 
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Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women 
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There's a shoulder where death comes to cry 
          Bb             C 
There's a lobby with nine hundred windows 
          Bb                 F    C 
There's a tree where the doves go  to die 
          Dm             Dm 
There's a piece that was torn from the morning 
       Bb              Bb    
And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost 
Bb     F 
Ay,   ay, ay, ay 
          A     Dm 
Take this waltz, take this waltz 
          Bb               Bbm 
Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws 

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verse 2 
      F           Dm 
Oh, I want you, I want you, I want you 
     F            Dm 
On a chair with a dead magazine 
       Bb              C 
In the cave at the tip of the lily 
        Bb                 F   C 
In some hallways where love's ne-ver been 
     Dm            Dm 
On a bed where the moon has been sweating 
     Bb                 Bb    
In a cry filled with footsteps and sand 
Bb     F 
Ay,   ay, ay, ay 
          A     Dm 
Take this waltz, take this waltz 
         Bb       Bbm 
Take its broken waist in your hand 



Chorus 
     Dm          Dm 
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz 
         Bb          F 
With its very own breath of brandy and death 
A          Bb     Bbm 
Dragging its tail in the sea 

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verse 3 
          F       Dm 
There's a concert hall in Vienna 
           F           Dm 
Where your mouth had a thousand reviews 
          Bb                C 
There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking 
             Bb               F C 
They've been sentenced to death by  the blues 
        Dm        Dm 
Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture 
       Bb            Bb    
With a garland of freshly cut tears? 
Bb     F 
Ay,   ay, ay, ay 
          A     Dm 
Take this waltz, take this waltz 
          Bb                 Bbm 
Take this waltz, it's been dying for years 

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verse 4 
           F           Dm 
There's an attic where children are playing 
           F          Dm 
Where I've got to lie down with you soon 
     Bb              C 
In a dream of Hungarian lanterns 
       Bb              F  C 
In the mist of some sweet af-ter-noon 
         Dm              Dm 
And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow 
         Bb                Bb    
All your sheep and your lilies of snow 
Bb     F 
Ay,   ay, ay, ay 
          A     Dm 
Take this waltz, take this waltz 
               Bb         Bbm 
With its "I'll never forget you, you know!" 

Dm 


Chorus 
     Dm          Dm 
This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz 
         Bb          F 
With its very own breath of brandy and death 
A          Bb    Bbm 
Dragging its tail in the sea 

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Verse 5 
         F          Dm      *C 
And I'll dance with you in Vienna 
        F         Dm 
I'll be wearing a river's disguise 
    Bb           C 
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder 
   Bb               F 
My mouth on the dew of  your thighs 
         F       Dm 
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook 
         F           Dm 
With the photographs there and the moss 
         Bb               C 
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty 
   Bb           F C 
My cheap violin and my cross 
           Dm       Dm 
And you'll carry me down on your dancing 
       Bb                Bb    
To the pools that you lift on your wrist 
    Bb     F 
Oh, my love,   oh, my love 
          A     Dm 
Take this waltz, take this waltz 
     Bb                 Bbm 
It's yours now, it's all that there is 

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