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VISIONS OF JOHANNA BOB DYLAN G Aint it just like the night to play C D G G/C G Tricks when you're trying to be so quiet G C D G G/C G We sit here stranded, all doing our best to deny it D G And Louise holds a handful of rain tempting you to defy it C G Lights flicker from the opposite loft C G In this room the heatpipes just coughed C The country music station plays soft, D But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off G C D G G/C G Just Louise, and her lover so entwined C G D G And these Visions of Johanna, that conquer my mind In the empty lot where the ladies play Blind Mans Bluff with the keychain & the Allnite girls they whisper of escapades out on the D-Train Where you can hear the nightwatchman click his flashlight Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane Louise, she's alright she's just near She's delicate, and seems like the mirror But she just makes it all too concise and too clear That Johanna's not here The ghost of electricity howls in the bones of her face And these Visions of Johanna have taken my place Now Little Boy Lost, he takes himself so seriously He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously And when bringing her name up, he speaks of a farewell kiss to me He's sure got a lotta gall, to be so useless and all Muttering small talk at the wall, while I'm in the hall How can I explain, it's so hard to get on And these Visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while But Mona Lisa must've had the highway blues You can tell by the way she smiles See the primitive wallflower frieze When the jelly-faced women all sneeze Hear the one with the moustache say Jeez, I can't find my knees! Oh jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule And these Visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel The pedlar now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him Saying 'name me someone who's not a parasite, and I'll go out and say a prayer for him' But like Louise always says 'you can't look at much, can you man' as she herself prepares for him And Madonna she still has not showed We see this empty cage now corrode Where her cape of the stage once had flowed The fiddler now steps into the road He writes 'everythings been returned which was owed' On the back of the fishtruck that loads While my conscience explodes The harmonicas play the skeleton keys in the rain And these Visions of Johanna are now all that remain ***************************************************************************************** The above is solely MY INTERPRETATION of this great song, in a format aimed at learning guitarists. No attempt has been made to copy or reproduce the artist's or publisher's sheet music for the song, if such exists. It can be used for INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. To play the song as it should be played, you should purchase the official sheetmusic for the song. You should also purchase and listen to the song to learn the rhythm and timing of the song - this is essential if you wish to play the song with any degree of accuracy *****************************************************************************************