Bob Dylan – Visions Of Johanna (Guitar)

[Verse] part
The bass plays a downward lick at the end of the lines; you might want to
include that into your accompaniment
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CHORDS
           E-A-D-G-B-e
C/G        3-x-2-0-1-3
D7sus4/G   3-x-0-2-1-3
G/B        x-2-0-0-0-3

        G                            C
Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks

            D               | G    C/G | G |
When you’re tryin' to be so quiet?

   G                               C             D        | G    C/G | G |
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it

       D                                            | G    C/G | G |
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it

       C                         G
Lights flicker from the opposite loft

        C                        G
In this room the heat pipes just cough

    C                           G
The country music station plays soft

            G                              | D     Dsus4 | D |
But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off

        G           C     D     | G    C/G | G |
Just Louise and her lover so entwined

          C            G/B        D          | G    C/G |
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

             G
In the empty lot where the ladies play

C           D            | G        C/G | G |
 Blindman’s bluff with the key chain

        G                    C              D               | G       C/G | G |
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the “D” train

       D           
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight

       D                               | G    C/G | G |
Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s insane

       C                            G
Louise, she’s all right, she’s just near

      C                           G
She’s delicate and seems like the mirror

        C                                     G
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear

                      | D     Dsus4 | D |
That Johanna’s not here

    G                    C            D           | G       C/G | G |
The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face

            C            G/B            D       | G    C/G |
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

     G                   C                D     | G       C/G | G |
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously

   G                       C             D      | G       C/G | G |
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously

         D
And when bringing her name up

   D                           | G    C/G | G |
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me

     C                G
He’s sure got a lotta gall

   C                 G
To be so useless and all

C                           G                     | D     Dsus4 | D |
Muttering small talk at the wall while I’m in the hall

    G                  C       D          | G       C/G | G |
How can I explain? Oh, it’s so hard to get on

          C            G/B                 D          | G    C/G |
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

  G                C         D         | G       C/G | G |
Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial

       G                    C              D           | G       C/G | G |
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while

         D                                                            | G       C/G | 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 jelly-faced women all sneeze

         C                                                  | D     Dsus4 | D |
Hear the one with the mustache say, “Jeeze, I can’t find my knees”

    G                     C             D          | G       C/G | G |
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule

          C            G/B                 D          | G    C/G |
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

   G                          C                 D         | G           C/G | G |
The peddler now speaks to the countess who’s pretending to care for him

         G                                             C   D            | G             C/G | G |
Sayin’, “Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”

            D
But like Louise always says

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“Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”, as she, herself, prepares for him

      C                        G
And Madonna, she still has not showed

            C                 G
We see this empty cage now corrode

          C                          G
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed

                D                G
The fiddler, he now steps to the road

          C                                    G
He writes ev’rything’s been returned which was owed

       C                           G                           | D     Dsus4 | D |
On the back of the fish truck that loads while my conscience explodes

       G                C        D           | G           C/G | G |
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain

          C            G/B           D         | G    C/G |
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

| G | C D | G    C/G | G |
(fade out)