[Intro - BPM 142 - No drums] [Am][F][Dm][G] Sha la la la la la la [Am] uh huh... [F][G][G]
[Verse 1 - No drums] [Am] I was down at the New [F] Amsterdam [Dm] staring at this [G] yellow-haired girl Mr. [Am] Jones strikes up a conver [F] sation with this [G] black-haired flamenco dancer [G] [Am] She dances while his father [F] plays gui [Dm] tar. She's suddenly [G] beautiful .. We [Am] all want something [F] beaut [G] iful, [G] I wish I was beautiful .... So come
(Drums in) [Am] dance this silence [F] down through the morning [Dm] Sha la la la [G] la la la [Am] la [F] yeah [G] uh huh... [G] [Am] Cut up, Ma [F] ria! [Dm] Show me some of them Span [G] ish dances [Am] Pass me a bo [F] ttle, Mr Jones [G][G] [Am] Believe in me [F][Dm] Help me believe in an [G] ything [Am] Cause I want to [F] be someone who beli [G] eves [G]
[Chorus 1] [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] tell each other fairy tales [C] Stare at the beautiful women [F] [G] "She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me." [C] Smiling in the bright [F] lights, [G] coming through in [G] stereo When [C] everybody [F] loves you, you [G] [G] can never be lonely
[Verse 2] [Am] I will paint my [F] picture. [Dm] Paint myself in blue [G] and red and black and gray [Am] All of the beautiful [F] colors are [G] very, very meaningful you know [Am] Gray is my favorite [F] color I [Dm] felt so sym [G] bolic yesterday [Am] If I knew Pi [F] casso I would [G] buy myself a gray [G] guitar and play
[Chorus 2] [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] look into the future [C] Stare at the beautiful women [F] [G] "She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me." [C] Standing in the spotlight [F][G] I bought myself a gray guitar When [C] everybody [F] loves me, I [G] will never be lone....
[Bridge] [Am] ly .... I will never be [Fmaj7] lonely I will never gonna [Am] be lone [G] ly
[Verse 3] [Am] I want to be a lion. [F] Everybody wants to pass as cats [Am] We all want to be big, big stars, but we got [G] different reasons for that. [Am] Believe in me because I [F] don't believe in anything And [Am] I want to be someone to believe, to [G] believe, to believe.
[Chorus 3] [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] stumbling through the barrio [C] Yeah we stare at the beautiful women [F] [G] She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me. [C] I want to be Bob Dylan [F] ... Mr. [G] Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky .. When [C] everybody [F] loves you, [G] son, that's just about as funky as you can be.
[C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] staring at the video [C] When I look at the tele [F] vision, I want [G] to see me staring right back at me. [C] We all want to be big [F] stars, but [G] we don't know why, and we don't know how. But when [C] everybody [F] loves me, [G] I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be. [C] Mr. [F] Jones and me [G] (stop drums) we're gonna be big stars.....
[Intro Riff - Drop D - BPM 136 - No drums] [D][G][Bm][A] E(10)----------------- B 10-10-10--10-1010--- G 7--0--x---7--6-7---- D 0-----7---7--------- A ----------0--------- D 0-----9-------------
[Verse 1 - Over riff] [D] When I was six years [G] old I broke my leg [Bm][A] [D] And I was running [G] from my brother and [Bm] his friends [A] [D] And tasted the [G] sweet perfume of the [Bm] mountain grass as I [A] rolled down [D] I was younger [G] then, [Bm] take me back to [A] when I
[Pre-Chorus 1 - Slap snare] [G] Found my [A] heart and broke it [D] here Made friends and [G] lost them through the years [G] And I've not [A] seen the roaring [D] fields in so long, I [G] know I've grown [G] But I can't [A] wait to go home
[Chorus 1 - Full drums] [D] I'm on [D/F#] my [G] way, [Bm] driving at [A7sus4] ninety Down [D] those coun [D/F#] try [G] lanes [Bm] singing to [A7sus4] Tiny Dancer And [D] I miss [D/F#] the [G] way you make [Bm] me feel [A7sus4] and it's real When [D] we watched [D/F#] the [G] sunset [Bm] over the [A7sus4] castle on the hill
[Riff - 0 7e 10 (10) for 2 bars - Drums stop] [D]
[Verse 2 - chords where you hold high A - Full drums] [D] Fifteen years [G] old and smoking [Bm] hand-rolled cigarettes [A] [D] Running from the law [G] through the backfields and [Bm] getting drunk with my [A] friends [D] Had my first [G] kiss on a Friday [Bm] night, I don't [A] reckon I did it [D] Right, I was younger [G] then [Bm] take me back to w [A] hen we found
[Pre-Chorus 2] [G] Weekend [A] jobs and when we got [D] paid We'd buy cheap [G] spirits and drink them [G] straight Me and my [A] friends have not thrown [D] up in so long, [G] oh how we've grown [G] But I can't [A] wait to go home
[Chorus 2] [D] I'm on [D/F#] my [G] way, [Bm] driving at [A7sus4] ninety Down [D] those coun [D/F#] try [G] lanes [Bm] singing to [A7sus4] Tiny Dancer And [D] I miss [D/F#] the [G] way you make [Bm] me feel [A7sus4] and it's real When [D] we watched [D/F#] the [G] sunset [Bm] over the [A7sus4] castle on the hill [D] woo [D/F#] ooo [G] oooh [Bm] Over the [A7sus4] astle on the hill (drums stop)
[Bridge - No drums] [Bm][G][D][A7sus4] (Just bass drum) [Bm] One friend [G] left to sell clothes, [D] one works A7sus4] down by the coast [Bm] One had two [G] kids but lives alone, [D] one's [A7sus4] brother overdosed [Bm] One's al [G] ready on his second wife, [D] one's just [A7sus4] barely getting by but [Bm] These people [G] raised me and I-I-I, [D] can't [A7sus4] wait to go home
[Chorus 3 - Still no drums] [D] I'm on [D/F#] my [G] way, [Bm] driving at [A7sus4] ninety Down [D] those coun [D/F#] try [G] lanes when [Bm] we did not [A7sus4] know the answers and (full drums) [D] I miss [D/F#] the [G] way you make [Bm] me feel [A7sus4] and it's real When [D] we watched [D/F#] the [G] sunset [Bm] over the [A7sus4] castle on the hill [D] woo [D/F#] ooo [G] oooh [Bm] Over the [A7sus4] astle on the hill [D] woo [D/F#] ooo [G] oooh (slow down and quieter) [Bm] Over the [A7sus4] astle on the hill
