Chords:
{t: Mr Jones}
{artist: Counting Crows}
{key: G}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oqAU5VxFWs
[Am] [F] [Dm] [G] Sha la la la la [Am] la la
[F] [G] uh huh... [G]
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[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
[Am] She dances while his [F] father plays gui-[Dm]tar. She's suddenly [G] beautiful
We [Am] all want something [F] beautiful, [G] I wish I was beautiful
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So come [Am] dance this silence [F] down through the morning
[Dm] Sha la la [G] la la la la [Am] la yeah [F] [G] uh huh...
[Am] Cut up, [F] Maria! [Dm] Show me some of them [G] Spanish dances
[Am] Pass me a [F] bottle, Mr. [G] Jones
[Am] Believe in [F] me. [Dm] Help me believe in [G] anything
'Cause [Am] I want to be [F] someone who [G] believes
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[C] Mr. [F] Jones and [G] me tell each other fairy tales
[C] Stare at the beautiful [F] women
[G] "She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at [C] me."
[C] Smiling in the [F] bright lights, [G] coming through in stereo
[C] When everybody [F] loves you, [G] you can never be lonely
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[Am] I will paint my [F] picture.
[Dm] Paint myself in [G] blue and red and black and [Am] gray
[Am] All of the beautiful [F] colors are very, [G] very meaningful
(you know) [Am] Gray is my favorite [F] color I [Dm] felt so sym-[G]bolic yester-[Am]day
[Am] If I knew [F] Picasso I would [G] buy myself a gray guitar and [C] play
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[C] Mr. [F] Jones and [G] me look into the future
[C] Stare at the beautiful [F] women
[G] "She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at [C] me."
[C] Standing in the [F] spotlight [G] I bought myself a gray guitar
[C] When everybody [F] loves me, [G] I will never be lone-[Am]ly
[Am] I will never be [Fmaj7] lonely, I will [Am] never gonna be lone-[G]ly
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[Am] I want to be a lion. [F] Everybody wants to [C] pass as cats
[Am] We All want to be big, big stars, [G] but we got 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, [G] to believe, to believe.
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[C] Mr. [F] Jones and [G] me stumbling through the barrio
[C] Yeah we stare at the beautiful [F] women
[G] "She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for [C] me."
[C] I want to be [F] Bob Dylan
Mr. [G] Jones wishes he was someone just a little more [C] funky
When everybody [F] loves you, [G] son, that's just about as funky as you can [C] be.
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[C] Mr. [F] Jones and [G] me staring at the video
[C] When I look at the tele-[F]vision, I [G] want to see me staring right back at [C] me.
[C] We all want to be [F] big stars, but we [G] don't know why, and we don't know how.
But [C] when everybody [F] loves me, I'm going to [G] be just about as happy as I can [C] be.
[C] Mr. [F] Jones and [G] me, we're gonna be big stars
