Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan, guitar chords

Published: 2011-05-27 19:48
Selection chords: Sofia Davis

        G                           C                   D7              G
Ainʼt it just like the night to play tricks when youʼre tryinʼ to be so quiet?
                                      C          D7          G
We sit here stranded, though weʼre all doinʼ our best to deny it
        D                                             G
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptinʼ you to defy it
         C                        G
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
    C                              G
In this room the heat pipes just cough
     C
The country music station plays soft
G                                            D7
But thereʼs nothing, really nothing to turn off
         G          C     D7   G
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
                 C          G     D7              G       C  G
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.

             G                        C            D7             G
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind manʼs bluff with the key chain
                                C             D7                G
And the allnight girls, they whisper of escapades out on the D train
        D
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
                                                G
 Ask himself if itʼs him or them thatʼs realy insane
   C                                G
Louise, sheʼs allright, sheʼs just near
       C                         G
Sheʼs delicate and seems like the mirror
              C
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
G                         D7
That Johannaʼs not here
    G                    C             D7          G
The ghost of ʼlectricity howls in the bones of her face
                   C          G         D7             G       C  G
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.

     G                      C             D7     G
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
                                C        D7         G
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
            D                                                 G
And when bringing her name up He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
      C               G
Heʼs sure got a lotta gall
   C                 G
To be so useless and all
      C
Muttering small talk at the wall
G                  D7
  while Iʼm in the hall
        G              C        D7         G
How can I explain? Oh, itʼs so hard to get on
                 C          G              D7               G       C  G
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.

   G               C          D7        G
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
                            C              D7               G
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
         D                                                            G
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
         C                     G
See the primitive wallflower freeze
           C                    G
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
         C                            G                            D7
Hear the one with the mustache say, Jeeze, I canʼt find my knees
     G                     C             D7          G
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
                   C          G         D7             G       C  G
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.

     G                          C                 D7        G
The peddler now speaks to the countess whoʼs pretending to care for him

Sayinʼ Name me someone thatʼs not a parasite
C               D7               G
 and Iʼll go out and say a prayer for him. But like Louise
D
 always says, Ya canʼt look at much, can ya man? As she, herself, pre
G
-pares for him
      C                           G
And Madonna, she still has not showed
             C                  C
We see this empty cage now corrode
           C                           G
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
             C                    G
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
          C                                    G
He writes evʼrythingʼs been returned which was owed
           C                            G                       D7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
        G                C       D            G
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
                 C          G        D7         G
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.