# 4 Wonderful “Waltz” Songs That Add a Classy Flair To Rock and Pop

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/4-wonderful-waltz-songs-that-add-a-classy-flair-to-rock-and-pop/
- Published: 2026-11-05T16:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T16:39:43+00:00
- Original publisher: American Songwriter
- Original article: https://americansongwriter.com/4-wonderful-waltz-songs-that-add-a-classy-flair-to-rock-and-pop/
- Topics: Americas, Entertainment, Music, World

## Key points

- Four songs use a waltz beat to add emotional weight.
- The selection spans Eagles, Leonard Cohen, Richard Thompson and Elliott Smith.
- Their themes include longing, heartbreak and troubled love.

## Summary

The article highlights four rock and pop songs built around a waltz rhythm, arguing that the familiar three-beat dance can give songs a particularly poignant quality. Each track also includes “waltz” or a variation of it in its title.

The songs are Eagles’ “Hollywood Waltz”, shaped by Bernie Leadon and his brother Tom; Leonard Cohen’s “Take This Waltz”, adapted from a poem by Federico García Lorca; Richard Thompson’s “Waltzing’s For Dreamers”, from his 1988 album *Amnesia*; and Elliott Smith’s “Waltz #2”, from *XO* (1998). Their subjects range from melancholy and troubled love to heartbreak and longing.

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