Chords for Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna (Official Audio)

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_ _ _ Ain't it just like the night, [D] the blade twicks [E] when you're trying to [A] be so quiet _
_ _ _ _ We sit here stranded, [D] though we're all doing [E] our best [A] to deny it
_ _ _ _ [E] And Louise holds a handful of rain, tempting you to [A] defy it _
_ _ _ _ [D] Lights flicker from the [A] opposite loft, _ [D] in this room the heat pipes [A] just cough
_ [D] The country music [A] station plays soft, but there's nothing, really nothing [E] to turn off
_ _ _ _ [A] Just Louise _ [D] and her lover, [E] so [A] _ intertwined
_ _ _ And [D] visions of [A] Johanna, _ _ that [E] _
conquer [A] my mind _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ In the empty lot where the ladies [D] play, [E] blind man's [A] bluff with the keychain
_ _ _ _ And the all night girls, [D] they whisper [E] of escapades [A] out on the D-tray _
_ _ _ We [E] can hear the night watchman click his flashlight, asking himself if it's him or them, [A] that's insane
Louise, _ _ _ _ [D] _ she's alright, she's just [A] here, _ _ [D] she's delicate and seems [A] like the mirror
But [D] she just makes it all too [Bm] concise [A] and too clear, that Johanna's not [E] here _ _
_ _ _ [G#] The [A] ghost electricity [D] howls [A] in the bones of her face
_ _ _ But [D] these visions of [A] Johanna _ have [E] not _ taken [A] my place _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Now our little boy lost, [D] he takes [E] himself so [A] seriously _ _
_ _ _ _ He begs of his misery, [D] he [E] likes to live _ [A] dangerously _ _
_ _ _ And [E] when bringing her name up, he speaks of a farewell [A] kiss to me _ _
_ _ _ [D] He's sure got a lot of [A] gall, _ _ [D] to be so useless and [A] all
_ _ _ [D] Muttering small [Bm] talk at [A] the wall, while [E] I'm in the hall _ _
_ _ [A] Oh how can I explain, [D] [E] it's so hard [A] to get on _ _
_ _ And these [D] visions _ [A] of Johanna, _ they kept [E] me up past the [A] dawn _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Inside the museum, [D] _
[Em] infinity goes [A] up on trial _ _ _
_ _ Voices echo, this is what [D]
[Em] salvation must be [A] like after a while _ _ _
_ [E] But Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues, you can tell by the way she [A] smiles _ _ _ _
_ [D] See the primitive _ [A] wallflower freeze, _ [D] when the jelly face women all [A] sneeze
Hear [D] the one with the mustache [A] say, geez I can't find my [E] knees _ _ _ _
_ [A] Oh jewels and binoculars [D] [E] hang from the [A] head of the mule _ _ _ _ _
But these [D] visions [A] of Johanna, _ they make [E] it all seem [A] so cruel _
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Oh I peddle and I speak [D] to the [Em] countess who's pretending [A] to care for him _ _ _ _
Saying name me someone that's not a parasite, [D] [E] and I'll go out and [A] say a prayer for him
_ _ _ But [E] like Louise always says, you can't look at much genuine as she [A] herself prepares for him
_ _ _ That [D] Madonna she still [Bm] has [A] not shown, we [D] see this empty cage now [A] corrode
[D] Where her cape of the stage once [A] it flowed, [D] the fiddler he now steps [A] to the road
He [D] writes everything's been returned [A] which was owed
On [D] the back of the fish truck that [A] loads while [F#m] my conscience [E]
explodes
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harmonica's played, [D] the skeleton [Em] keys [A] and the rain
_ _ _ _ And [D] these visions of [A] Johanna are [E] now all that [A] remain _ _ _ _ _
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