Artist = Counting Crows
Song = Mr Jones
Tuning = Standard

Chords:
Am: 00122
F: 112331
Dm: 1320
G: 330023
C:01023


Am   F   Dm  G   Am  F   Dm   G   G
         Sha la la la la la la uh huh

Am                 F
I was down at the New Amsterdam 
Dm               G
Staring at this yellow-haired girl
Am                    F
Mr Jones strikes up a conversation 
G                    G
With a black-haired flamenco dancer
Am                   F
She dances while his father plays 
Dm                 G
so, she's suddenly beautiful
Am                F
We all want something beautiful
G                 G
I know I wish I was beautiful
Am                       F
So come dance the silence down through the morning 
Dm              G
Sha la la la la la la la 
Am              F
Yeah uh 
G               G
Huh yeahh
Am           F
Cut up Maria! 
Dm                                G
Show me some of that Spanish dancin, and
Am            F
Pass me a bottle, 
G               G
Mr Jones
Am           F
Believe in me
Dm                    G
Help me believe in anything
Am                     F
Cause I want to be someone 
G
Who believes Yeah

C                  F
Mr Jones and me 
G
Tell each other fairy tales, and we
C                   F
Stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you. 
G
Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."

C                       F
Smilin in the bright lights
G
Coming through in stereo
C                      F
When everybody loves you,
G
You can never be lonely

Am                  F
I wanna paint my picture
Dm                 G
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray 
Am                 G
All of the beautiful colours 
G
Are very very meaningful
Am                      F
Oh well you know grey is my favourite colour
Dm                    G
Ahhh I felt so symbolic yesterday
Am               F
If I knew Picasso
G
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play


C                  F
Mr Jones and me 
G                 G
Look into the future
Am               F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you.
G
Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."
Am                 F
Standing in the spotlight
G
I bought myself a gray guitar
Am                 F
When everybody loves me, 
G                    Am
I will never be lone…ly
G
I will never be lonely
Am                  G
So I'm never gonna be Lone...ly


Am                  
I want to be a lion
F
Yeah everybody wants to pass as cats
Am
We all want to be big, big stars, 
G
But we got different reasons for that

Am
Believe in me 
F
Cause I don't believe in anything
Am                            G
and I want to be someone to believe, To believe, To believe Yeeeaahh


C              F
Mr Jones and me 
G
Stumbling through the barrio
C                 F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's perfect for you, Man, there's got to be somebody for me."
C                 F
I want to be Bob Dylan
G
Mr Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
Am              F
When everybody loves you, 
G
Oh! Son, that's just about as funky as you can be


C               F
Mr Jones and me 
G
Staring at the video
Am             F
When I look at the television, 
G
I want to see me Staring right back at me
Am                F
We all want to be big stars, 
G
But we don't know why and we don't know how 
Am                F
But when everybody loves me, 
G
I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be
C               F
Mr Jones and me, 
G
We're gonna be big stars…