Mr. Jones. Counting Crows. Chords. GuitarPlayerBox

Chords used in this song: Gm, A#, Cm, D#, F

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Capo II

[Intro]
Gm  D#  Cm  F
       Gm        D#   F
Sha la la la la la la
        F
uh huh...

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

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

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

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

[Verse]
Gm           D#      Cm
I will paint my picture.
             F
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
Gm                  D#
  All of the beautiful colors are very,
     F          F
very meaningful
           Gm                      D#
(you know) Gray is my favorite color
Cm        F
I felt so symbolic yesterday
Gm            D#      F
  If I knew Picasso I would buy myself
  F
a gray guitar and play

[Chorus]
A#    D#            F                F
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
A#                   D#
Stare at the beautiful women
       F
"She's looking at you.
F
Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."
A#           D#        F                 F
Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar
     A#               D#      F            F        Gm
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely

[Bridge]
     Gm         D#
I will never be lonely
  Cm            F
I will never be lonely

[Verse]
Gm
  I want to be a lion.
D#
Everybody wants to pass as cats
Gm
  We All want to be big, big stars,
    F
but we got different reasons for that.
Gm
  Believe in me because
  D#
I don't believe in anything
    Gm                      F
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.

[Chorus]
A#   D#             F                       F
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
        A#                  D#
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
       F                    F
"She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
A#             D#
I want to be Bob Dylan
   F                           F
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
     A#                  D#            F
When everybody loves you, son,
                     F
that's just about as funky as you can be.

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