Mr. Jones
Counting Crows
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Tom:
[Intro] Am F Dm G
Am F G
Sha la la la la la la
[Primeira Parte]
Am F Dm
I was down at the New Amsterdam
G
Staring at this yellow-haired girl
Am F
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
G
Riff 1
With a black-haired flamenco dancer
[Refrão 1]
C F G
Mr. Jones and me
Tell each other fairy tales
C F
And we stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you
C
Ah, no, no, she's looking at me"
F G
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
C F G
When everybody loves you
You can never be lonely
[Segunda Parte]
Am F Dm
Riff 1
Well, I'm paint my picture
G
Paint myself in blue and red
Am
Black and gray
F
All of the beautiful colors
G
Are very, very meaningful
Yeah, well
Am F
Riff 1
You know gray is my favorite color
Dm G Am
Riff 2
I felt so symbolic yesterday
F
If I knew Picasso
G
I would buy myself
A gray guitar and play
[Refrão 2]
C F G
Mr. Jones and me
Look into the future
C F
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you
C
I don't think so. She's looking at me"
F
Standing in the spotlight
G
I bought myself a gray guitar
C F G
When everybody loves me
Am
I'll never be lonely
[Terceira Parte]
F7M
I'll never be lonely
Am G
Son, I'm never gonna be lonely
Am
I wanna be a lion
F7M Am
Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all wanna be big, big stars, yeah,
G
But we've got different reasons for that
Am
Riff 3
Believe in me
F7M
'Cause I don't believe in anything
Am G
And I, I wanna be someone to believe
To believe, to believe
[Refrão 3]
C F G
Mr. Jones and me
Stumbling through the barrio
C F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's perfect for you
C
Man, there's got to be somebody for me"
F
I wanna be Bob Dylan
G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone
Just a little more funky
C F
When everybody loves you
G
Oh, son
That's just' bout as funky as you can be
[Refrão 4]
C F G
Mr. Jones and me
Staring at the video
C F
When I look at the television
G
I wanna see me staring right back at me
C F
We all wanna be big stars
G
But we don't know why and we don't know how
C F
But when everybody loves me
G
I'll be just' bout as happy as I could be
C F G
Mr. Jones and me
We're gonna be big stars
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