Visions of Johanna Chords by Bob Dylan

[Start]

[Verse]
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■ Ain't it just like the night to play tricks
            E               A    
When you're tryin' to be so quiet
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We sit here stranded though we're all doin' our best to deny it
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And Louise holds a handful of rain 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
            A     D       A         
The country music station plays soft
                                           E  
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off


[Chorus]
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Just Louise and her lover so entwined ■
D                 A          E            A      
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind


[Verse]
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In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
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And the allnight girls they whisper of escapades out on the D train
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We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
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Ask himself if it's him or them 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 and too clear
                   E   
That Johanna's not here


[Chorus]
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The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
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Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
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Now ■ ■ little boy lost he takes himself so seriously ■


[Verse]
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He brags of his misery he likes to live dangerously
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And when bringing her name up
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He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
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He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
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Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
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How can I explain
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It's so hard to get on


[Chorus]
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And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn ■


[Verse]
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■ ■ Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial
                                                E       A    
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
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But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
                            A     
You can tell by the way she smiles
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See the primitive wallflower freeze
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When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
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Hear the one with the mustache say Jeez I can't find my knees


[Chorus]
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Oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
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But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel ■


[Verse]
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■ The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
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Sayin' name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him
         E                 
But like Louise always says
          E                      
You can't look at much can ya man
       A                       
As she herself prepares for him
    D           A                   
And Madonna she still has not showed
            D          A          
We see this empty cage now corrode
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Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
            D            A          
The fiddler he now steps to the road
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He writes everything's been returned which was owed
       D           A                    
On the back of the fish truck that loads
         E                  
While my conscience explodes


[Chorus]
A                   D                     A       
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
D                 A              E                  
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain


[Outro]
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