Mr Jones - Counting Crows, guitar chords

Published: 2021-06-23 20:46
Selection chords: Katie Paterson

Intro: Am F Dm G Am F G
       Sha la la la

Verse:
Am                            F
I was down at the New Amsterdam
   Dm                       G
staring at this yellow-haired girl. Mr.
Am                                   F
Jones strikes up a conversation, with this
G                             Am
black-haired, flamenco dancer. She dances while
           F             Dm
her father plays, guitar. Sheʼs suddenly
G                  Am               F            G
beautiful.      We all want something beautiful. I
                         Am
wish I was beautiful.     So come dance this silence
F                                 Dm        G
down through the morning. sha la la la la la
      Am       F  G      Am        F
la la yeah uh huh... Cut up, Maria!

     Dm                  G
Show me some of them Spanish dances.
Am        F           G      Am
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones. Believe in
F     Dm                             G
me. Help     me believe in anything ʼcause
Am                 F                      G
I, want to be someone who believes, yeah...

Chorus:
C      F          G
Mr. Jones and me, tell each other fairy
          C               F
tales, yeah well we stare      at the beautiful women
     G
"Sheʼs looking at you. Ah,      no, no, sheʼs looking
   C                F          G
at me." Smiling in the bright lights. Coming
               C  F
through in stereo. When everybody loves you,
G
you can never be lonely.

Verse:
Am       F      Dm
Im gonna paint my      picture. Paint myself in
G               Am
blue and red and black and gray. All of the
     F               G
beautiful colors are very very meaningful. You
Am          F      Dm
know gray is my favorite color. I felt so
G      Am          F      G
symbolic,      yesterday. If I knew Picasso, I would buy
          C
myself a gray guitar and play,

Refrain:
F
Mr. Jones and
   G               C
me look into the future. We stare at the
     F      G
beautiful      women "Sheʼs looking at you. Uh, I
               C
donʼt think so.      Sheʼs looking at me." Standing
       F         G
in the spotlight. I bought myself a gray
        C       F          G
guitar. When everybody loves me, I will never
     Am          Fmaj7  Am
be lonely,      I will never be lonely, Iʼm never gonna
       G      Am
be lonely.      I want to     be a lion.
Fmaj7 Am
Everybody wants to pass as cats. We
               G
all want to be big, big stars, but weʼve got
               Am
different reasons for that. Believe in me
     Fmaj7
because I donʼt believe in anything
Am               G
and I, want to be someone to believe, to believe,
C       F          G
to believe. Mr.Jones and me, stumbling
               C
through the barrio. Yeah we stare at the
     F          G
beautiful      women "Sheʼs perfect for you, Man,
                    C
thereʼs got to be somebody for me."I want to be
       F          G
Bob Dylan. Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a
          C      F
little more funky. When everybody loves you,son,
G
thatʼs just about as funky as you can be.

Outro:
 C      F          G
Mr.Jones and me staring at the video. When
 C      F          G
I look at the television I want to see me,
           C
staring right back at me. We all want to be
 F               G
big, stars but we donʼt know why and we
           C          F
donʼt know how. But when everybody loves me, Iʼm
           G
going to be, just about as happy as I can be.

 C   F              G
Mr. Jones and me, weʼre gonna be big stars...