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From: Steve Vetter <vetters@vax1.elon.edu>

Counting Crows - August And Everything After (and extras)
18 March 1995

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I have compiled all of the circulating files from the net into this one 
overview file. If you have anything to add, mail it to me and I'll update
it.  Original credit is left intact, much thanks to Ken McLeod who did 
many of them and Paul Hutchinson for his trained ear and skillfull 
corrections. If I have forgotton to name anyone that credit is due to, 
please flame me. ;-)

-Steve Vetter [vetters@vax1.elon.edu]
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-- MR. JONES --    Counting Crows 
From: dmorgan@emunix.emich.edu (D Morgan)
Corrections by Eric Simon and Ken McLeod.


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.....


CHORDS:    C   x32010    F   x33211    G   320003
           Am  x02210    Dm  x00231

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

G             Am
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