Mr. Jones

[Intro]
Em C Am D
       Em        C   D     
Sha la la la la la la
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uh huh...


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


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


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

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


[Verse]
Em           C      Am
I will paint my picture.
             D  
Paint myself in blue and

red and black and gray
Am 
  
                  C      
All of the beautiful colors are very,
     D          D
very meaningful
           Em   
  (you know) Gray
                    C
is my favorite color
 Am        D           
I felt so symbolic yesterday
Am 
  
            C      D
If I knew Picasso I would buy myself
  D
a gray guitar and play


[Chorus]
G    C           
  Mr. Jones and me
  D                D
look into the future
G                   C
 Stare at the beautiful women
       D
"She's looking at you.
D  
Uh, I don't think so.

She's looking at me."
G           C        D    
  Standing in the spotlight
              D
I bought myself a gray guitar
     G               C   
  When everybody loves me,
    D            D        Em
I will never be lonely


[Bridge]
     Em         C
I will never be lonely
  Am            D
I will never be lonely


[Verse]
Em           
  I want to be a lion.
C
Everybody wants to pass as cats
Am 
  
                     
We All want to be big, big stars,
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but we got different

reasons for that.
Em                
  Believe in me because
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I don't believe in anything
    Em                      
  And I want to be someone to
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believe, to believe, to believe.


[Chorus]
G   C             D        
  Mr. Jones and me stumbling
                D
through the barrio
        G        
  Yeah we stare at
           C
the beautiful women
       D                    D  
"She's perfect for you, man, there's

got to be somebody for me."
G             C
 I want to be Bob Dylan
   D                           D  
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone

just a little more funky
     G                  C            D
When everybody loves you, son,
                     
  that's just about as
  D
funky as you can be.


[Chorus]
G    C            
   Mr. Jones and me
     D               D
staring at the video
 G                  C      
When I look at the television,
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I want to see me staring

right back at me.
G                C          D  
We all want to be big stars,

but we don't know why,
D
and we don't know how.
   G               C      
But when everybody loves me,
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  I'm going to be just about
    D
as happy as I can be.
G   C           D  
Mr. Jones and me, we're

gonna be big stars