Take This Waltz

Take This Waltz

Song infobox
Name = Take This Waltz


Artist = Leonard Cohen
Album = I'm Your Man
Released = February 1988
track_no = 5
Recorded =
Genre =
Length = 5:59
Writer = Leonard Cohen Federico García Lorca
Label = Columbia Records
Producer =
Chart position =
prev = I'm Your Man
prev_no = 4
next = Jazz Police
next_no = 6

"Take This Waltz" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, originally released as part of his 1988 studio album I'm Your Man.

The song's lyrics are a (somewhat loose) English version of the Spanish poem "Pequeño vals vienés" by Federico Garcia Lorca, which was first published in his "Poeta en Nueva York".

In the year 1996 Enrique Morente and Lagartija Nick covered the song with Cohen's music and the original Spanish text as lyrics in the album "Omega". Two years later, Spanish singer Ana Belén covered the song again for her album "Lorquiana".


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