Visions Of Johanna chords by Cat Power

Intro:

G C D G


Part 1:
G                                    C                    D               G
Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
G                      C                        D             G
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
D                                                   G
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
C                          G
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
C                    D             G
In this room the heat pipes just cough
C                              D   G
The country music station plays soft
G                                        D
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
 G                   C          D    G
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
              C        G               D       G
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

Harmonica:
G C D G


Part 2:
G                            C                         D              G
In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
G                                  C           D                   G
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
D
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
                                        G
Ask himself if it's him or them that's insane
C                G
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
C                G
She's delicate and seems like the mirror
C                     G                   G
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
D
That Johanna's not here
G                              C        D           G
The ghost of 'lectricity howls in the bones of her face
C                       G                D        G
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place


Harmonica:
G  C  D  G


Part 3:
G                                  C       D       G
Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
C                                  C       D       G
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
D
And when bringing her name up
D                         G
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
C                        G           C      D    G
He's sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
C            G                                   D
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
D              G
How can I explain?
C         D        G
It's so hard to get on
C                   G              D                    G
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn


Harmonica:
G C D G


Part 4:
G                 C                D       G
Inside the museums, infinity goes up on trial
G             C             D                    G
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
G           D
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
G                         C
You can tell by the way she smiles
C                         G
See the primitive wallflower freeze
C                         G
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
C                         G                         D
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeez, I can't find my knees"
G               C               D             G
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
C                 G                     D                G
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel


Harmonica:
G C D G


Part 5:
G                        C                      D               G
The peddler now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
G                        C                     D                  G
Sayin', "Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
G           D
But like Louise always says
D
"Ya can't look at much, can ya man "
G
As she, herself, prepares for him
C                         G
And Madonna, she still has not showed
C                    D          G
We see this empty cage now corrode
C                                G
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
C                                G
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
C                              D               G
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
C                           D         G
On the back of the fish truck that loads
G                    D
While my conscience explodes
G                    C             D          G
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
C                    G             D          G
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain


Harmonica:
G C D G C D