Mr Jones - Counting Crows, ukulele chords

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

Intro: G#m E C#m F# G#m E F#
       Sha la la la

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

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

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

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

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

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

 B   E              F#
Mr. Jones and me, weʼre gonna be big stars...