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Take This Waltz is een nummer van de Canadese zanger en dichter Leonard Cohen. Het nummer verscheen oorspronkelijk op het album Poet in New York, een eerbetoon aan de Spaanse dichter Federico García Lorca, uit 1986. In 1988 verscheen het ook op Cohens eigen album I'm Your Man.

"Take This Waltz" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen, originally released as part of the 1986 Federico García Lorca tribute album Poets in New York and as a single.

The song was later included in Cohen's 1988 studio album I'm Your Man, in a slightly re-arranged version (with addition of violin and Jennifer Warnes's duet vocals, both absent from the 1986 version).

The song's lyrics are a loose translation, into English, of the poem "Pequeño vals vienés" (Little Viennese Waltz) by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca (one of Cohen's favorite poets). The poem was first published in Lorca's seminal book Poeta en Nueva York.