
Counting Crows-Mr. Jones
[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.....