Mr. Jones

[Intro]
D#m B G#m C#
       D#m        B   C#     
Sha la la la la la la
        C#
uh huh...


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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


[Bridge]
     D#m         B
I will never be lonely
  G#m            C#
I will never be lonely


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

reasons for that.
D#m                
  Believe in me because
  B
I don't believe in anything
    D#m                      
  And I want to be someone to
  C#
believe, to believe, to believe.


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

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

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


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

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

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

gonna be big stars