Mr. Jones

[Intro]
C#m A F#m B
       C#m        A   B     
Sha la la la la la la
        B
uh huh...


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


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


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

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


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

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


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

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


[Bridge]
     C#m         A
I will never be lonely
  F#m            B
I will never be lonely


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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

gonna be big stars