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/ The Counting Crows / Across a Wire: Live in New York (1998) / Mr. Jones guitar tab

Mr. Jones
By Counting Crows
tabbed by: Bt3883@aol.com

C	x32010
Am	x02210
F	x33211
Dm	x00231
G	320003

(*)  The following fill is used at a few points in the song, marked with an asterisk.

G		  Am
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Intro:
Am F Dm G					 Am	   F   G		 G
	          Sha la la la la la la		uh huh...


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


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


C    F 	     G
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
C 			     F
Stare at the beautiful women
G
"She's looking at you.  Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."

C 		   F 			G
Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo
     C 	   F 		  G
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely


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


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


     Am
I will never be lonely
  G
I will never be lonely


Am 			    F
I want to be a lion.  Everybody wants to pass as cats
Am 						  G
We All want to be big, big stars, but we got different reasons for that.
Am 			  	 F
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
    Am 					 G
And I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.


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, man, there's got to be somebody for me."
C 		     F
I want to be Bob Dylan
   G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky

     C 	   F 		  G
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.


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


The Counting Crows albums
2004 Films About Ghosts: The Best Of...
2002 Hard Candy
1999 This Desert Life
1998 Across a Wire: Live in New York
1996 Recovering the Satellites
1993 August and Everything After
Across a Wire: Live in New York tabs
01Round Here tabbass tab
02Have You Seen Me Lately? tabbass tab
04Catapult tabbass tab
05Mr. Jones tabbass tab
06Rain King tabbass tab
07Mercury tabbass tab
09Anna Begins tabbass tab
10Recovering the Satellites (live) tabbass tab
15Have You Seen Me Lately? (live) tabbass tab

 

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