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