Visions of Johanna Chords by Bob Dylan

[Intro]

[Verse]
A                                 D          
■ Ain't it just like the night to play tricks
            Esus4           A    
When you're trying to be so quiet
                            D                   E       A      
We sit here stranded though we're all doing our best to deny it
    E                                              A      
And Louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it
D                       A            
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
D                                A    
In this room the heat pipes just cough
D                               A   
The country music station plays soft
                                           E  
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off


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


[Verse]
A                                       
■ In the empty lot where the ladies play
D     Esus4                A        
Blind man's bluff with the key chain
                 A    
And the allnight girls
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They whisper of escapades out on the Dtrain
       E                                           
We can hear the nightwatch man click his flashlight
                                       A     
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
D                               A   
Louise she's alright she's just near
D                                 A     
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
        D                                    A    
But she just makes it all to concise and too clear
                   E   
That Johanna's not here


[Chorus]
A                        D            E            A   
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face
            D          A            E            A    
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
        D A                 D                E  A        
And now ■ ■ little boy lost he takes himself so seriously


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


[Chorus]
          D          A                       E           A    D
And these visions of Johanna they've kept me up past the dawn ■


[Verse]
A                    D        E                A
■ Inside the museums infinity goes up on trial ■
                         D                      A            
Voices echo This is what salvation must be like after a while
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But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues
                        A         
You can tell by the way she smiles
        D         A                
See the primitive wallflower freeze
         D                    A     
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
             D                    
Hear the one with the mustache say
A                    E    
Jeez I can't find my knees
                A          D             Esus4       A   
Both jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule


[Chorus]
          D          A                    E           A     D
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel ■


[Verse]
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■ ■ The peddler now speaks to the countess
      Esus4      A              
Who's pretending to care for him
                                    D       
Saying Name me someone that's not a parasite
         E                A             
And I'll go out and say a prayer for him
                E                                                             A               
But like Louise always says You can't look at much can you man as she herself prepares for him
    D           A                   
And Madonna she still has not showed
       D          A               
We see this empty cage now corrode
          D           A                    
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
D                  A                
The fiddler he now steps to the road
          D                                    A   
He writes Everything's been returned which was owed
       D           A                                         E       
On the back of the fish truck that loads while my conscience explodes


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


[Solo]

[Inst]
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