[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 - BPM 122] Just drums for 2 bars then one, two, one, two, three, four... [Asus2-x02200][Asus2][Cmaj7-x32000][Gadd6-320000] x 2
[Verse 1] [Asus2] travelling through a [Cmaj7] tunnel under [Gadd6] sea [Asus2] you never know if it cracks in half you're [Cmaj7] never ever gonna [Gadd6] see me
[Chorus] [D] but you can have it [C] all if you [G-riff1] like [D] you can have it [C] all if you [G*] like and [G] you can pay for it the rest of your (stabs on i i i) [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] .............. [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] ..............
[Verse 2] [Asus2] i wouldn't believe your [Cmaj7] wireless radi [Gadd6] o [Asus2] if i had myself a flying giraffe you'd [Cmaj7] have one in a box with a [Gadd6] window
[Chorus] [D] but you can have it [C] all if you [G-riff1] like [D] you can have it [C] all if you [G] like and [G] you can pay for it the rest of your (stabs on i i i) [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] .............. [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] ..............
[Solo - see past notes] [D][C][G][G] x 2
[Middle Eight?] [Em] life in the [A] summer's on it's [Em] back ...you'd have to [A] agree that, that's the [Em] crack so take what you [A] want i'm not coming [G] back
[Chorus] [D] but you can have it [C] all if you [G-riff1] like [D] you can have it [C] all if you [G-riff1] like [D] you can have it [C] all if you [G-riff1] like [D] you can have it [C] all if you [G-riff1] like and [G] you can pay for it the rest of your (stabs on i i i) [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] .............. [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] .............. [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] .............. [Asus2] li - i - i - i - [Cmaj7] ife...... [G-riff2] ..............
[Fade out on Asus2 vamp]
[Extra notes] [Solo with chords] D C G D C G E 2-5-7-5-----3--------0----2-5-7-5-7-10--7--10-- B 3-3-5-5-7-5-3--3-2-3------3-3-5-5-5-12--x--12-- G 2-2-5-5-5-5-0-------------2-2-5-5-5-12--0--12-- D 0-0-5-5-5-5-0-------------0-0-5-5-5-12--0--12-- A ----3-3-3-3-x-----------------3-3-3-10--x--10-- E ------------3-----------------------x---3--x---
[G-riff1] there is also this happening as well - G G5 G/F# G/E G E 3--------0---- B 3--3-2-3------ G 0------------- D 0------------- A x------------- E 3--------------
[G-riff2] G E 3-------- B 3-------- G 0-------- D 0-------- A 2-32----- E ------3--
