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

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.