"Take This Waltz" is a song by Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

, originally released as part of his 1988 studio album I'm Your Man.

The song's lyrics are an English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 version of the Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 poem Pequeño vals vienés by Federico García Lorca

Federico García Lorca

Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27. He is believed to be one of thousands who were summarily shot by anti-communist death squads...

, which was first published in his Poeta en Nueva York.

Actor/Singer Sven Wollter

Sven Wollter

Sven Wollter is a Swedish actor. He was born and grew up in Gothenburg.Sven Wollter is an actor in Sweden and has starred in many films such as, The Man on the Roof, The Man from Majorca, Änglagård and Jerusalem, based on the novel by Selma Lagerlöf...

 recorded a version of the song with lyrics translated to swedish at his 1989 album Nån sorts man.

Zorán Sztevanovity

Zorán Sztevanovity

Zorán Sztevanovity , born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 4 March 1942) is a Hungarian musician , singer and composer of a Serbian origin. He has two children, Zoltán and Sandra.-Life and career:...

 covered the song in 1991 with Cohen's original music but with different lyrics in Hungarian language

Hungarian language

Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....

 written by his brother Dusán. The title of the song is "Volt egy tánc" ("There was a dance").

Enrique Morente

Enrique Morente

Enrique Morente Cotelo, known as Enrique Morente, was a flamenco singer and a controversial figure within the world of contemporary flamenco...

 and Lagartija Nick covered the song in 1996 with Cohen's music and the original Spanish text as lyrics in the album Omega. Two years later, Spanish singer Ana Belén

Ana Belén

Ana Belén is the artistic name of María del Pilar Cuesta Acosta, a Spanish actress and singer. She was born on 27 May 1951 in Madrid.- Biography :...

covered the song again for her album Lorquiana.