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               SONG TITLE: Mr. Jones
             ARTIST/GROUP: Counting Crows
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           TRANSCRIBED BY: qualitytabs@qualitytabs.tk
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CHORDS:
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   EADGBE
Am (x02210)
F  (133211)
Dm (xx0231)
G  (320033)
C  (x32010)


First song I´ve done in a while, easy to play, sounds good acoustic.
Enjoy!


INTRO:
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Am  F  Dm  G           Am  F  G
           Shalalalalalala     Uh huh

VERSE 1:
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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
          G
whith this black haired   flamenco dancer
        Am                   F                  Dm
You know she dances while his father playes, guitar
Dm               G
 She's suddenly beautiful
  Am                 F
We all want something beautiful
G
 Man I wish I was beautiful


VERSE 2:
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       Am                 F
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Dm        G
  Sha la la la la la la
Am    F   G
Yeah,       Uh huh  yeaah
Am           F
 Cut up Maria!
Dm                     G
 Show me some of them spanish dances
Am          F            G
 Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Am           F
 Believe in me
Dm                   G
 Help me believe in anything
      Am           F               G
'cause I   wanna be someone who believes, yeaah


CHORUS:
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C     F             G
 Mr. Jones and me,   tell each other fairy tales
     C                       F
And we stare at the beautiful women
      G                                           C
"She's looking at you.  Ah no, no she's looking at me"
              F
Smiling in the bright lights
G
Coming through in stereo
    C             F
When everybody loves you,
G
you can never be lonely


VERSE 3: [Play like verses 1 & 2]
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Well I'm gonna paint my picture
Paint my self in blue and red and black and grey
All of the beautiful colors are very, very meaninful
Yeah well you know grey is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a grey guitar and play


CHORUS: [Play like first chorus, except last line]
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Mr. Jones and me, look into the future
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
"She's looking at you.  Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me"
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a grey guitar
When everybody loves me,
G                    Am
I will never be lonely


[The little lick you hear in the last lines in the BRIDGE is this:]

E|----3h5-5----|
B|--5----------|
G|-------------|
D|-------------|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|


BRIDGE:
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Am              F
I will never be lonely
         Am          G
I'm never gonna be looonely
Am
 I want to be a lion
F                                Am
Eh, everybody wants to pass as cats

We all wanna be big big stars,
        G
Yeah but  we got different reasons for that
Am
 Believe in me
F
because I don't believe in anything
     Am                                G
and I    I wanna be someone  to believe, to believe, to believe, yeah


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


CHORUS: [Play like previous choruses, except last line]
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Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
When I look at the television, I want to see me
staring right back at me.
We all wanna be big stars,
But we don't know why, and we don't know how.
But when everybody loves me,
I'm going to be, just about as happy as I can be.
C     F            G [strum G once and let fade...]]
 Mr. Jones and me,   we're gonna be big stars...


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