Bob Dylan – Visions Of Johanna (v2)★
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[Verse]
A D E7 A
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet
D E7 A
We sit here stranded though we're all doin' our best to deny it
E A
And Louise holds a handful of rain temptin' you to defy it
D A
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
D A
In this room the heat pipes just cough
D
The country music station plays soft
A E7
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off
A D E7 A
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
D A E7 A D A
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
A D E7 A
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
D E7 A
And the allnight girls they whisper of escapades out on the D train
E
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
A
Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
D A
Louise she's allright she's just near
D A
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
D
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
A E7
That Johanna's not here
A D E7 A
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
D A E7 A D A
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
A D E7 A
Now little boy lost he takes himself so seriously
D E7 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
D A
He's sure got a lotta gall
D A
to be so useless and all
D
Muttering small talk at the wall
A E7
while I'm in the hall
A D E7 A
How can I explain Oh it's so hard to get on
D A E7 A D A
And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn
A D E7 A
Inside the museums Infinity goes up on trial
D E7 A
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
E A
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
D A
See the primitive wallflower freeze
D A
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
D A E7
Hear the one with the mustache say Jeeze I can't find my knees
A D E7 A
Oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
D A E7 A D A
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel
A D E7 A
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin' Name me someone that's not a parasite
D E7 A
and I'll go out and say a prayer for him But like Louise
E
always says Ya can't look at much can ya man As she herself pre
A
pares for him
D A
And Madonna she still has not showed
D D
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 ev'rything's been returned which was owed
D A E7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
A D E A
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
D A E7 A
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain
A D E7 A
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet
D E7 A
We sit here stranded though we're all doin' our best to deny it
E A
And Louise holds a handful of rain temptin' you to defy it
D A
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
D A
In this room the heat pipes just cough
D
The country music station plays soft
A E7
But there's nothing really nothing to turn off
A D E7 A
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
D A E7 A D A
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind
A D E7 A
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
D E7 A
And the allnight girls they whisper of escapades out on the D train
E
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
A
Ask himself if it's him or them that's realy insane
D A
Louise she's allright she's just near
D A
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
D
But she just makes it all too concice and too clear
A E7
That Johanna's not here
A D E7 A
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
D A E7 A D A
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place
A D E7 A
Now little boy lost he takes himself so seriously
D E7 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
D A
He's sure got a lotta gall
D A
to be so useless and all
D
Muttering small talk at the wall
A E7
while I'm in the hall
A D E7 A
How can I explain Oh it's so hard to get on
D A E7 A D A
And these visions of Johanna they kept me up past the dawn
A D E7 A
Inside the museums Infinity goes up on trial
D E7 A
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
E A
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles
D A
See the primitive wallflower freeze
D A
When the jellyfaced women all sneeze
D A E7
Hear the one with the mustache say Jeeze I can't find my knees
A D E7 A
Oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
D A E7 A D A
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel
A D E7 A
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin' Name me someone that's not a parasite
D E7 A
and I'll go out and say a prayer for him But like Louise
E
always says Ya can't look at much can ya man As she herself pre
A
pares for him
D A
And Madonna she still has not showed
D D
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 ev'rything's been returned which was owed
D A E7
On the back of the fish truck that loads While my conscience explodes
A D E A
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
D A E7 A
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain