By: David Harrison (gtr_playa@hotmail.com)
URL: http://geocities.datacellar.net/SunsetStrip/Stage/8535

Song: Mr. Jones | Artist: Counting Crows
Album: August And Everything After (1993)
Tuning: (E A D G B E) -- Standard


[Chords]
    Am       F      Dm       G       C
E|---0---|---1---|---1---|---3---|---0---|
B|---1---|---1---|---3---|---3---|---1---|
G|---2---|---2---|---2---|---0---|---0---|
D|---2---|---3---|---0---|---0---|---2---|
A|---0---|--(3)--|--(0)--|---2---|---3---|
E|-------|--(1)--|-------|---3---|-------|



[Intro]
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Am     F     Dm     G                 Am      F         G
                      sha la la la la la la      oooh     uh huh



[Verse 1]
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Am                    F          Dm                     G
   I was at the New Amsterdam       staring at this yellow haired girl

       Am                        F             G
   Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with a black haired flamenco dancer

            Am                   F              Dm                     G
   You know she dances while his father plays guitar  she's suddenly beautiful

           Am                 F           G
   And we all want something beautiful      man I wish I was beautiful



[Bridge]
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            Am                F                       Dm
   So come dance the silence down through the morning

          G              Am         F        G
   sha la la la la la la la  yeah              uh huh   yeah



[Verse 2]
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Am           F      Dm                         G
   Cut up, Maria       show me some of them Spanish dances

  Am              F                G
   And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones

Am             F      Dm                     G
   Believe in me         help me believe in anything

         Am              F               G
   Cause I, I wanna be someone who believes     yeah



[Chorus 1]
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C      F             G
   Mr. Jones and me    tell each other fairy tales

      C                           F
   And we stare at the beautiful women

           G
   'She's looking at you   Ah, no, no, she's looking at me'

C                    F            G
   Smiling in the bright lights     coming through in stereo

        C           F          G
   When everybody loves you,     you can never be lonely



[Verse 3]
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            Am                   F        Dm                   G
   Now well I'm gonna paint my picture       paint myself in blue and red and black and gray

Am                       F                 G
   All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful

                     Am                   F        Dm              G
   Ya well you know gray is my favorite color I...... felt so symbolic yesterday

Am              F                 G                            
   If I knew Picasso     I would buy myself a gray guitar and play



[Chorus 2]
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C        F            G
   Mr. Jones and me      look into the future

         C                          F
   Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

             G
   'She's looking at you  I don't think so  She's looking at me'

C                     F         G
   Standing in the spotlight       I bought myself a gray guitar

        C              F       G                        Am
   When everybody loves me,      I will never be lo...nely



[Interlude]
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                      F
   I will never be lonely

                     Am              G
   I said I'm never gonna be lo......nely

Am                        F
   I want to be a lion     Everybody wants to pass as cats

Am                                         G
   We all wanna be big big stars, yeah but   we got different reasons for that

Am                        F
   Believe in me because I don't believe in anything

      Am                                G
   And I, I wanna be someone to believe,  to believe,  to believe   yeah



[Chorus 3]
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C       F            G
   Mr. Jones and me    stumbling through the barrio

         C                          F
   Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

            G
   'She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me'

 C                    F
   I wanna be Bob Dylan

          G
   Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky

  C                 F              G
   When everybody loves you, ah son,   that's just about as funky as you can be



[Chorus 4]
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C      F             G
   Mr. Jones and me    staring at the video

         C                 F                G
   When I look at the television, I wanna see me staring right back at me

C                  F                 G
   We all wanna be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how

            C              F                G
   But when everybody loves me,   I wanna be   just about as happy as I can be



[Ending]
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C      F              G
   Mr. Jones and me,    we're gonna be big stars