Visions Of Johanna Chords & Tabs

by Bob Dylan

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Visions of Johanna chords
Bob Dylan  1966
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visions_of_Johanna
A  D  E7  A *
         A                           D                  E7              A     Asus4 A
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're trying to be so quiet?
                                   D             E7        A    Asus4 A
We sit here stranded, though we're all doing our best to deny it
        E                                    E7       A    Asus4 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,
                                            E7 Esus4 E
but there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
         A          D     E7   A      Asus4 A
Just Louise and her lover so entwined,
          D             A         E  E7      A    DE7 A
and these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind.
             A                         D           E7             A        Asus4 A
In the empty lot where the ladies play blind man's bluff with the key chain
                              D              E7                A       Asus4 A
And the all night girls, they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
       E                                            
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight,
                                                A   Asus4 A
ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
   D                                A   
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
      D                           A     
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
             D                                A     
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear,
                   E7  Esus4 E
that Johanna's not here
    A                    D            E7           A    Asus4 A
The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face,
            D             A             E  E7    A     DE7 A
where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place.
     A                   D                E7     A Asus4 A
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
                           D             E7       A Asus4 A
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
         E                                                    A Asus4
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                           A    
muttering small talk at the wall,
                 E7  Esus4 E
while I'm in the hall
    A                          D       E7  A  Asus4 A
Oh, how can I explain, it's so hard to get on?
          D             A                  E  E7       A    DE7 A
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn.
           A        D        E7         A    Asus4 A
Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
                            D              E7           A    Asus4 A
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
         E                                                                 A     Asus4 A
But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she smiles
        D                    A      
See the primitive wallflower freeze,
         D                     A      
when the jelly faced women all sneeze,
         D                           A                      E7    Esus4 E
hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze, I can't find my knees"
    A                     D             E7          A   Asus4 A
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
          D            A                  E   E7      A    DE7 A
But these visions of Johanna they make it all seem so cruel.
    A                         D                 E7                  A  Asus4 A
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
         A                                     Asus4 A
Saying' "Name me someone that's not a parasite,
            D             E7         A   Asus4 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,
   A            Asus4 A
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                           E7    Esus4 E
on the back of the fish truck that loads while my conscience explodes
       A                D        E            A    Asus4 A
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain,
          D             A            E   E7     A    
and these visions of Johanna are now all that remain.
D E7 A . . . .
* Alternates:
Capo II
A     = G
Asus4   Gsus4
D     = C
E7    = D7
Esus4   Dsus4
E     = D
Open (These chords are not in the original key)
A     = D
Asus4   Dsus4
D     = G
E7    = A7
Esus4   Asus4
E     = A
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