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Mr. Jones - Counting Crows

Tabbed by Ed Montano

Standard Tuning


Am Fmaj7 Dm G Am Fmaj7 Dm G G
              Sha la la la la la la

Am                Fmaj7          Dm              G 
I was down at the New Amsterdam, staring at this yellow haired girl.
    Am                          Fmaj7             G 
Mr. Jones strikes up this conversation, with this black haired Flamenco dancer.
Am                   Fmaj7        Dm                      G 
She dances while his father plays guitar.  She's suddenly beautiful.
    Am                Fmaj7                   G 
We all want something beautiful, I wish I was beautiful.

        Am                 Fmaj7                      Dm          G 
So come dance this silence down through the morning.  Sha la la la la la, yeah.
Am   Fmaj7  G
   Uh,      huh...yeah.
Am      Fmaj7  Dm                      G 
Cut up Maria!  Show me some of them Spanish dances.
Am        Fmaj7       G 
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Am         Fmaj7 Dm                 G 
Believe in me.   Help me believe in anything,
     Am             Fmaj7          G 
(cuz)I...want to be someone who believes, yeah.

C   F            G 
Mr. Jones and me, tell each other fairy tales.
Am            Fmaj7            
Stare at the beautiful women,
G
"She's looking at you. Ah no, no, she's looking at me."
Am             Fmaj7 
Smiling in the bright lights,
G
Comming through in stereo.
Am             Fmaj7      G 
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely, well...

Am              Fmaj7       Dm            G 
I will paint my picture.   Paint my self in blue and red and black and grey.
Am                   Fmaj7                 G 
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful.
           Am         Fmaj7          Dm                 G 
(You know) Grey is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday.
Am        Fmaj7                        G 
If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a grey guitar and play.

C   F            G 
Mr. Jones and me look into the future, yeah.
Am           Fmaj7            
Stare at the beautiful women.
G
"She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Am              Fmaj7     G 
Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a grey guitar.
Am             Fmaj7       G                  Am
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.
                 G
I will never be lonely,
        Am        G
I will never be lonely, no.
Am                   G
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                 G
Believe in me, cuz I don't believe in anything.
Am                  G
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.

C   F            G 
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the Barrio.
Am                   Fmaj7
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women.
G
"She's perfect for you...Man, there's got to be somebody for me."
Am                Fmaj7
I want to be Bob Dylan .
G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky.
Am              Fmaj7         G 
When everybody loves you son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

C    F           G 
Mr. Jones and me staring at the video.
Am        Fmaj7                    G 
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.
Am                Fmaj7                G 
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.
Am                 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.....

      Chords
      EADGAE
Am    x02210
Fmaj7 xx3210
G     320033
C     x32010
F     133211