Artist: | Counting Crows (English) |
User: | msyahnaz |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Default |
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Counting Crows – Mr. Jones
142 bpm 4/4 8th Note Strumming
[August and Everything After 1993]
Intro
Am F Dm G
Am F G G
Sha-la-la-la-la-la-laa… Uh-huh…
Verse 1
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 with this
G G
black-haired… flamenco dancer…
Verse 2
Am F
You know she dances while his father plays
Dm G
guitar… She's suddenly beautiful…
Am F
We all want something beautiful…
G G
Man… I wish I was beautiful…
Verse 3
Am
So come dance this silence
F
down through the morning…
Dm G
Sha-la-la-la-la-la---
Am F
---laa… Yeah…
G G
Uh-huh… Yeah-hhh…
Verse 4
Am F
Cut up Maria…
Dm G
Show me some of them Spanish dances and…
Am F G G
pass me a bottle… Mr. Jones-sss…
Verse 5
Am F
Believe in me…
Dm G
Help me believe in anything…
Am F
'cause I-iii… want to be someone who
G G
believes-sss… Yeah-hhh…
Chorus 1
C F
Mr. Jones and me…
G G
tell each other fairy tales
C F
and we stare at the beautiful women…
G
"She's looking at you…
G
Ah no no… She's looking at me…"
C F
Smiling in the bright lights…
G G
coming through in stereo…
C F
When everybody loves you…
G G
You can never be lone-eee-ly…
Verse 6
Am F
Well-lll I’m gonna paint my picture…
Dm G
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray…
Am F
All of the beautiful colors are very very
G G
meaningful…
Verse 7
Am F
Yeah… well you know gray is my favorite color…
Dm G
I-iii felt so symbolic… yesterday…
Am F
If I knew Picasso…
G G
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play…
Chorus 2
C F G G
Mr. Jones and me… look into the future…
C F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women…
G
"She's looking at you… Uh I don't think
G
so… She's looking at me…"
C F
Standing in the spotlight…
G G
I bought myself a gray-yyy guitar…
C F
When everybody loves me…
G G
I will never be lone-eee-eee---
Bridge
Am Am
---ly… I will never be
F F
lonely… Said I'm never
Am Am
gonna be…
G G
lone-eee-eee-ly…
Am Am
I want to be a lion…
F F
Eee… Everybody wants to pass as cats…
Am Am
We all want to be big big stars yeah but…
G G
we got different reasons for that…
Am Am
Believe in me…
F F
because I don't believe in anything…
Am Am
and I… want to be someone to believe…
G G
to believe… to believe… Yeah-hhh…
Chorus 3
C F
Mr. Jones and me…
G G
stumbling through the barrio…
C F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women…
G
"She's perfect for you… Man… There's got
G
to be somebody for me…"
C F
I want to be Bob Dylan…
G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone
G
just a little more funky…
C F
“When everybody loves you…
G G
Ah son… That's just about as funky as you can be…
C F G G
Mr. Jones and me… staring at the video…
C F
When I look at the television I want to
G G
see me… staring right back at me…
C F
We all want to be big stars…
G G
but we don't know why… and we don't know how…
C F
but when everybody loves me… I wanna be…
G G
just about as happy as I can be…
Outro
C F
Mr. Jones and me…
* G
We're gonna be big stars…