Mr Jones - Counting Crows, ukulele chords

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

Intro: A#m F# D#m G# A#m F# G#
       Sha la la la

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

     D#m                  G#
Show me some of them Spanish dances.
A#m        F#           G#      A#m
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones. Believe in
F#     D#m                             G#
me. Help     me believe in anything ʼcause
A#m                 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:
A#m       F#      D#m
Im gonna paint my      picture. Paint myself in
G#               A#m
blue and red and black and gray. All of the
     F#               G#
beautiful colors are very very meaningful. You
A#m          F#      D#m
know gray is my favorite color. I felt so
G#      A#m          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
     A#m          F#      A#m
be lonely,      I will never be lonely, Iʼm never gonna
       G#      A#m
be lonely.      I want to     be a lion.
F#     A#m
Everybody wants to pass as cats. We
               G#
all want to be big, big stars, but weʼve got
               A#m
different reasons for that. Believe in me
     F#    
because I donʼt believe in anything
A#m               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...