Visions Of Johanna chords by Bob Dylan
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Intro 1
(G major) (G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (G major)
Verse 1
Ain't it (G major) just like the night to play (C major) tricks
when you're tryin' (D major) to be so quiet? (G major)
We sit here stranded, though we're all (C major) doin'
our (D major) best to deny (G major) it
And Louise (D major) holds a handful of rain,
temptin' you to defy (G major) it
Lights (C major) flicker from the opposite loft (G major)
In this (C major) room the heat pipes just cough (G major)
The country (C major) music station plays soft
(G major) But there's nothing, really nothing
to turn off (D major)
Just Louise (G major) and her (C major) lover (D major) so
entwined (G major)
And these visions (C major) of Johanna (G major)
that (D major) conquer my mind (G major)
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Interlude 1
(G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (G major)
Verse 2
In the empty (G major) lot
where the ladies play (C major) blindman's (D major) bluff
with the key (G major) chain
And the all-night girls they whisper (C major)
of escapades (D major) out on the "D" (G major) train
We can (D major) hear the night watchman
click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them
that's in (G major) sane
Louise, (C major) she's all right, she's just near (G major)
She's (C major) delicate and seems like the mirror (G major)
But she just (C major) makes it all too concise
and too clear (G major)
That Johanna’s not here (D major)
The ghost (G major) of ’lectricity (C major) howls in the bones (D major)
of her face (G major)
Where these visions (C major) of Johanna (G major)
have now (D major) taken my (G major) place
Interlude 2
(G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (G major)
Verse 3
Now, (G major) little boy lost,
he takes (C major) himself so (D major) seriously (G major)
He brags of his misery,
he (C major) likes to live dangerous (D major) ly (G major)
And when (D major) bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
(G major)
He’s sure (C major) got a lotta gall (G major)
to be (C major) so useless and all (G major)
Mutter (C major) ing small talk at the wall (G major)
while I’m in the hall (D major)
Oh, how (G major) can I explain?
(C major) It's so hard (D major) to get on (G major)
And these vi (C major) sions of Johanna, (G major)
they kept me (D major) up past the dawn (G major)
Interlude 3
(G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (G major)
Verse 4
In (G major) side the museums,
(C major) Infinity goes (D major) up on (G major) trial
Voices echo this is what sal (C major) vation must be like (D major)
after a while (G major)
But Mona (D major) Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
(G major)
See the (C major) primitive wallflower freeze (G major)
When the jelly-faced (C major) women all sneeze (G major)
Hear the one (C major) with the mustache say,
(G major) “Jeeze I can’t find my knees” (D major)
Oh, (G major) jewels and binoculars
(C major) hang from the head (D major) of the mule (G major)
But these vi (C major) sions of Johanna, (G major)
they make it all (D major) seem so cruel (G major)
Interlude 4
(G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (G major)
Verse 5
Well, the (G major) peddler now speaks to the (C major) countess
who’s pre (D major) tending to care (G major) for him
Sayin’, “Name me someone
that’s not a parasite (C major) and I’ll go out (D major)
and say a prayer (G major) for him”
But like Louise (D major) always says
“Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”
As she, herself, prepares (G major) for him
And Madonna, (C major) she still has not showed (G major)
We see this (C major) empty cage now corrode (G major)
Where her (C major) cape of the stage once had (G major) flowed
The fiddler, (C major) he now steps to the road (G major)
He writes ev' (C major) rything's been returned
which was owed (G major)
On the back (C major) of the fish truck that loads (G major)
While my conscience ex (D major) plodes
The har (G major) monicas play the (C major) skeleton keys (D major)
and the rain (G major)
And these vi (C major) sions of Johan (G major) na
are now (D major) all that remain (G major)
Outro 1
(G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (G major)
(G major) (C major) (D major)
(G major) (G major)
[Fade out]
Visions Of Johanna
Bob Dylan
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