Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna guitar tab

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From: larpe@oden.nts.mh.se (Petter Larsson)

Visions of Johanna - Bob Dylan

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('Blonde on Blonde' album)

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.

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Typed by Petter Larsson , larpe@nts.mh.se

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