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Mr Jones by Counting Crows - Guitar Chords

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            Rearranged the chords, so that the strumming is (in my opinion) much easier to understand.


[Intro]

Am F Dm G                Am        F   G                 G
                  Sha la la la la la la         uh huh...


[Verse 1]

Am                    F        Dm               G
I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
    Am                        F               G            G
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
Am                   F                 Dm                 G
She dances while his father plays guitar.  She's suddenly beautiful
   Am                 F         G                    G
We all want something beautiful, I wish I was beautiful

        Am                 F
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Dm                  G             Am      F         G           G
        Sha la la la la la la la  yeah          uh huh...
Am        F      Dm                    G
  Cut up, Maria!  Show me some of them Spanish dances
Am          F           G           G
  Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Am           F  Dm                   G
  Believe in me.  Help me believe in anything
       Am           F             G         G
'Cause I want to be someone who believes


[Chorus 1]

C    F         G                 G
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
C                       F
 Stare at the beautiful women
       G                G
"She's looking at you.  Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."

C              F             G                  G
Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo
     C           F       G                 G
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely


[Verse 2]

Am              F       Dm                G
I will paint my picture.  Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
Am                     F                     G          G
  All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
           Am                      F  Dm          G             
(you know) Gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday
Am            F      G                   G
  If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play


[Chorus 2]

C    F        G                G
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
C                       F
 Stare at the beautiful women
       G                G
"She's looking at you.  Uh, I don't think so.  She's looking at me."
C               F         G                 G
Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar
     C           F      G                G         Am
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely


[Bridge]

     Am         F
I will never be lonely
  DM            G
I will never be lonely


[Verse 3]

Am                      F
  I want to be a lion.  Everybody wants to pass as cats
Am                                      G
  We All want to be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that.
Am                        F
  Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
    Am                      G
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.


[Chorus 3]

C   F          G                       G
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
        C                      F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
       G                    G
"She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
C                 F
 I want to be Bob Dylan
   G                           G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
     C              F         G                     G
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

C    F            G               G
 Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
 C                     F                 G
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.
C                       F           G               G
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.
   C                F            G                         G
But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be.
C   F           G
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars.....
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