Mr. Jones

[Intro]
Dm A# Gm C
       Dm        A#   C     
Sha la la la la la la
        C
uh huh...


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


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


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

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


[Verse]
Dm           A#      Gm
I will paint my picture.
             C  
Paint myself in blue and

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


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

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


[Bridge]
     Dm         A#
I will never be lonely
  Gm            C
I will never be lonely


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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

gonna be big stars