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.....