Mr. Jones

[Intro]
G#m E C#m F#
       G#m        E   F#     
Sha la la la la la la
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uh huh...


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


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


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

B             E             F# 
  Smiling in the bright lights,
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coming through in stereo
     B               E    
  When everybody loves you,
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you can never be lonely


[Verse]
G#m           E      C#m
I will paint my picture.
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Paint myself in blue and

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


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

She's looking at me."
B           E        F#    
  Standing in the spotlight
              F#
I bought myself a gray guitar
     B               E   
  When everybody loves me,
    F#            F#        G#m
I will never be lonely


[Bridge]
     G#m         E
I will never be lonely
  C#m            F#
I will never be lonely


[Verse]
G#m           
  I want to be a lion.
E
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.
G#m                
  Believe in me because
  E
I don't believe in anything
    G#m                      
  And I want to be someone to
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believe, to believe, to believe.


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

got to be somebody for me."
B             E
 I want to be Bob Dylan
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Mr. Jones wishes he was someone

just a little more funky
     B                  E            F#
When everybody loves you, son,
                     
  that's just about as
  F#
funky as you can be.


[Chorus]
B    E            
   Mr. Jones and me
     F#               F#
staring at the video
 B                  E      
When I look at the television,
      F#  
I want to see me staring

right back at me.
B                E          F#  
We all want to be big stars,

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

gonna be big stars