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Ukulele Chords MR JONES By COUNTING CROWS

Ukulele Chords MR JONES By COUNTING CROWS

  VERSION 1  

Intro :
Dm Bb Gm C                                      
          Sha la la la la la la        
Dm        Bb   C                 C
uh huh...

Verse 1 :
Dm                          Bb      Gm           C
I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
    Dm                        Bb                     C
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
Dm                          Bb       Gm                      C
She dances while his father plays guitar.  She's suddenly beautiful
   Dm               Bb      C
We all want something beautiful, I wish I was beautiful

  Dm                       Bb
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Gm                  C       Dm    Bb         C                  
        Sha la la la la la la la  yeah          uh huh...
Dm        Bb         Gm                   C
Cut up, Maria!  Show me some of them Spanish dances
Dm          Bb       C
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Dm           Bb    Gm                 C
Believe in me.  Help me believe in anything
Dm               Bb                 C
'Cause I want to be someone who believes

Chorus 1 :
F    Bb       C
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
F                            Bb
Stare at the beautiful women
C
'She's looking at you.  Ah, no, no, she's looking at me.'
F                  Bb                    C
Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo
     F         Bb            C
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely

Verse 2 :
Dm                  Bb     Gm                    C
I will paint my picture.  Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
Dm                         Bb                      C
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaningful
     Dm                          Bb         Gm     C            
(you know) Gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday
Dm              Bb                 C
If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play

Chorus 2 :
F   Bb        C
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
F                          Bb
Stare at the beautiful women
C
'She's looking at you.  Uh, I don't think so.  She's looking at me.'
F                    Bb    C
Standing in the spotlight I bought myself a gray guitar
     F            Bb        C                  Dm
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely

Bridge :
     Dm          Bbmaj7
I will never be lonely
                  Dm     C
I will never gonna be lonely

Verse 3 :
Dm                          Bb
I want to be a lion.  Everybody wants to pass as cats
Dm                                                C
We All want to be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that.
Dm                               Bb
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
    Dm                                   C
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.

Chorus 3 :
F   Bb        C
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
  F                              Bb
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
C
'She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me.'
F                    Bb
I want to be Bob Dylan
   C
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
     F           Bb         C
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

F    Bb       C
Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
F                   Bb               C
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.
F                       Bb                       C
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.
   F               Bb                        C
But when everybody loves me, I'm going to be just about as happy as I can be.

F   Bb           C
Mr. Jones and me, we're gonna be big stars
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