Capo: 2 Tuning: E A D G B E

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visions of Johanna – bob Dylan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Bob Dylan From: “Blonde on Blonde” (1966) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Capo: 2nd Play: G Key: A For chords in original key, transpose +2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Verse] part The bass plays a downward lick at the end of the lines; you might want to include that into your accompaniment G C D G C/G G 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + e|3---------------|0-------2-------|3---------3-----|3---------------| B|0---------------|1-------3-------|0---------1---0-|0---------------| G|0---------------|0-------2-------|0---------0---0-|0---------------| D|0---------------|2-------0-------|0---------2---0-|0---------------| A|----------------|3-----------3-2-|----------------|----------------| E|3---------------|----------------|3---------3-----|3---------------| CHORDS E-A-D-G-B-e C/G 3-x-2-0-1-3 G/B x-2-0-0-0-3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | G | % | C/G | G C/G | G | [Verse 1]

Ain’t it^G just like the night to play ^Ctricks 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 Lights ^Cflicker from the opposite ^Gloft In this ^Croom the heat pipes just ^Gcough The ^Ccountry music station plays ^Gsoft 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

[Interlude] | G | C D | G C/G | G | [Verse 2]

In the empty ^Glot 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 We can ^Chear the night ^Dwatchman click his flashlight D | G C/G | G | Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s insane Louise,^C she’s all right, she’s just ^Gnear She’s ^Cdelicate and seems like the ^Gmirror But she ^Cjust makes it all too concise and too ^Gclear | 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

[Interlude] | G | C D | G C/G | G | [Verse 3] 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

And when ^Dbringing her name up D | G C/G | G | He speaks of a farewell kiss to me He’s ^Csure got a lotta ^Ggall To ^Cbe so useless and ^Gall 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

[Interlude] | G | C D | G C/G | G | [Verse 4] 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

See the ^Cprimitive wallflower ^Gfreeze When the ^Cjelly-faced women all ^Gsneeze 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

[Interlude] | G | C D | G C/G | G | [Verse 5] 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”

But like Lou^Dise always says | G C/G | G | “Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”, as she, herself, prepares for him And Ma^Cdonna, she still has not ^Gshowed We see this ^Cempty cage now cor^Grode Where her ^Ccape of the stage once had ^Gflowed The fiddler, he ^Dnow steps to the ^Groad He writes ^Cev’rything’s been returned which was ^Gowed 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

[Outro] | G | C D | G C/G | G | | G | C D | G C/G | G | (fade out)

Bob Dylan - Visions of johanna