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Mr Jones by Counting Crows - Guitar Chords

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                            Mr. Jones
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ARTIST: Counting Crows
ALBUM:  August and Everything After
YEAR: 1993

tabbed by : pp1pete
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 [based on chord v1 but with timing, chord choice and missing lyrics fixes that hadn't been done]
 [full lyrics and chords
 [chord timing/placement
 [Some chord choice
 [correct rubric



[Intro]

 Am F Dm G                        Am          F   G              G
                  Sha la 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
 Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer (you know)
 Am                   F            Dm                       G
 She dances while his father plays guitar.  She's suddenly beautiful
    Am                 F           G
 We all want something beautiful,   man I wish I was beautiful

[Verse 2]

         Am                 F
 So come dance this silence down through the morning
 Dm                  G        Am        F  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
 Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
 Am               F    Dm              G
    Believe in me.  Help me believe in anything
         Am               F                 G
 'Cause I want to be someone who believes

[Chorus]

 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, come in through in stereo
      C                F   G
 When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

[Verse 3]

 Am                 F         Dm              G
    I will 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            Am
 (you know) Gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday
 Am             F          G                            C
 If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

[Chorus]

 C   F         G
 Mr. Jones and me look into the future
          C                      F
 Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
        G                                                        C
 "She's looking at you.  Uh, 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 lone--ly

[Bridge]

                  Fmaj7
 I will never be lonely
                Am           G
 Said I'm never gonna be lone---ly

Am                    Fmaj7
  I wanna be a lion.  E - everybody wanna pass as cats
Am                                        G
  We all wanna be big, big stars, yeah but we got different reasons for that
Am                        Fmaj7
   Believe in me 'cause I don't believe in anything
      Am                              G
 And I, I wanna be someone to believe, to believe, to believe

[Chorus]

 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                Fmaj7
 I want to be Bob Dylan
     G
 Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky

      C            Fmaj7      G
 When everybody loves you, ah son, that's just about as funky as you can be

[Ending]

 C    Fmaj7       G
 Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
         C              Fmaj7              G
 When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me
 C                 Fmaj7             G
 We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how
          C               Fmaj7            G
 But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be
 C   Fmaj7          G
 Mr. Jones and me,     we're gonna be big stars..... 
        

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