Mr. Jones Chords by Counting Crows

[Start]

[Intro]
Am F G               Am  F
■  ■ Shalalalalalala Mmm ■
G       
■ Uh huh


[Verse]
  Am                  F        
I was down at the New Amsterdam
D               G                
Staring at this yellowhaired girl
   Am                 F           
Mr Jones strikes up a conversation
       G                          
With a blackhaired flamenco dancer
         Am                   F                  
You know she dances while his father plays guitar
               G        
She's suddenly beautiful
       Am                 F        
And we all want something beautiful
G                           
■ Man I wish I was beautiful


[Chorus]
        Am        A7      F                        D
So come dance the silence down through the morning ■
G               Am  
Shalalalalalala yeah
   F G Am      
Uh ■ ■ huh yeah


[Verse]
       F    
Cut up Maria
D                    G       Am    
Show me some of them Spanish dances
          F         G    
Pass me a bottle Mr Jones
Am            F 
■  Believe in me
D                  G       
Help me believe in anything
         Am          F           G       
'cause I ■  wanna be someone who believes


[Chorus]
     C    F           
Yeah ■ Mr Jones and me
G                          
Tell each other fairy tales
       C                      F    
And we stare at the beautiful women
      G             
She's looking at you
   G                        
Ah no no she's looking at me
C              F            
Smilin' in the bright lights
G                       
Coming through in stereo


[Verse]
C              F        
When everybody loves you
G                      
You can never be lonely
     Am                F      
Well I'm gon' paint my picture
D               G                          Am  
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
                     F               G              
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
                   Am                  F    
Yeah well you know gray is my favorite color
D         G        Am       
I felt so symbolic yesterday
          F      
If I knew Picasso
        G                            C   
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play


[Chorus]
   F           
Mr Jones and me
G                   
Look into the future
        C                      F    
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
      G             
She's looking at you
        G       
I don't think so
                 G 
She's looking at me
C               F        
Standing in the spotlight
G                            
I bought myself a gray guitar
C              F       
When everybody loves me
G                 Am    
■ I will never be lonely


[Verse]
                F     
I will never be lonely
                        Am     G
Said I'm never gonna be lonely ■
Am               
I wanna be a lion
     F                 C           
Yeah ■ everybody wanna pass as cats
Am                           
We all wanna be big big stars
         G                                
Yeah but we got different reasons for that
Am            C 
■  Believe in me
         F                        
'cause I don't believe in anything
               Am                 G                    
And I wanna be someone to believe to believe to believe


[Chorus]
C       F           
Yeah Mr Jones and me
G                           
Stumbling through the barrio
     C                         F    
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
      G              
She's perfect for you
                                   C 
Man there's got to be somebody for me
               F    
I wanna be Bob Dylan
   G                                                   
Mr Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
C              F               
When everybody loves you ah son
G                                     C 
That's just about as funky as you can be
   F           
Mr Jones and me
G                   
Staring at the video
       C           F                    G     
When I look at the television I want to see me
G                       
Staring right back at me
C               F        
We all wanna be big stars
       G                                   
But we don't know why and we don't know how
         C         F       
But when everybody loves me
        G                               C 
I wanna be just about as happy as I can be
   F         G 
Mr Jones and me


[End]
            G           
We're gonna be big stars