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    Visions of Johanna

    song by Bob Dylan

    "Visions of Johanna" is a song written and performed by Bob Dylan on his album Blonde on Blonde. Several critics have acclaimed "Visions of Johanna" as one of Dylan's highest achievements in writing,[2][3] praising the allusiveness and subtlety of the language.[4][5]Rolling Stone included "Visions of Johanna" on their list of the Greatest Songs of All Time. In , Sir Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, listed it as the greatest song lyric ever written.

    Dylan first recorded the song in New York City in November , under the working title of "Freeze Out", but was dissatisfied with the results. When the Blonde on Blonde recording sessions moved to Nashville in February , Dylan attempted the composition again with different musicians, and decided to release this performance. All of the alternate versions of the song have been officially released, but some only on a limited edition collectors set: many of them are November or later studio outtakes, and two others are live performances from his world tour.

    Numerous artists have recorded cover versions of the song, including the Grateful Dead, Cat Power, Marianne Faithfull, Chris Smither, and Robyn Hitchcock.

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    Visions of Johanna is one of Dylan&#;s most ambitious lyrics, and for that reason alone it’s due much respect. By pop music standards Visions is an epic, a tragic opera that ruminates on how love can overcome the emptiness of our lonely and otherwise pointless existence.

    I don&#;t think it&#;s one of Dylan&#;s all-time greats.  There are some lines, at least to my mind, that really misfire:

    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

    Too many easy rhymes there for me.

    &#;She&#;s delicate and seems like the mirror&#; seems awkward every time I hear it.

    &#;Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin&#; you to defy it&#;. Somehow that&#;s interesting, if incomprehensible.

    &#;The ladies play blindman&#;s bluff with the key chain&#;. Blind’s Man Bluff is a game of tag, so I don’t understand what a key chain has to do with it.

    And what about that bit about the “fish truck explodes”? What?

    Many of the Dylan commentators love the next to last line &#; The &#;harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain.&#; Dylan author John Hinchey writes:

    the skeleton keys are a dense macabre, but they are also the keys to the kingdom, master keys that open the secrets of the rain, itself on

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