Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan, guitar chords

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

        G#                           C#                   D#7              G#
Ainʼt it just like the night to play tricks when youʼre tryinʼ to be so quiet?
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We sit here stranded, though weʼre all doinʼ our best to deny it
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And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptinʼ 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
     C#
The country music station plays soft
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But thereʼs nothing, really nothing to turn off
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Just Louise and her lover so entwined
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And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.

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In the empty lot where the ladies play blind manʼs 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 itʼs him or them thatʼs realy insane
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Louise, sheʼs allright, sheʼs just near
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Sheʼs delicate and seems like the mirror
              C#
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
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That Johannaʼs not here
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The ghost of ʼlectricity howls in the bones of her face
                   C#          G#         D#7             G#       C#  G#
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.

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

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Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
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Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
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But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
         C#                     G#
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, Jeeze, I canʼt find my knees
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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.

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

Sayinʼ Name me someone thatʼs not a parasite
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 and Iʼll go out and say a prayer for him. But like Louise
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 always says, Ya canʼt look at much, can ya man? As she, herself, pre
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-pares 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
          C#                                    G#
He writes evʼrythingʼs been returned which was owed
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On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
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The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
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And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.