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