Mr Jones

[Intro]
Am F Dm
G           Am   F
 Shalalalalalala,
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Umm,
Uhhuh,

[Verse 1]
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  I was down at the new Amsterdam  staring at this
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yellowhaired girl,
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Mister Jones strikes up a conversation with this
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blackhaired flamenco dancer,
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She  dances while his father plays the guitar,
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She's suddenly beautiful,
       Am                 F         G
Now we all want something beautiful,
Man I wish I was beautiful,
        Am                 F                        Dm
So come dance this silence down through the morning,
      G                  Am
Sha la la la la la la la,
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Yeah
G
 Aha
Yeah

[Verse 2]
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  Cut up Maria!  Show me some of them Spanish dances,
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Pass me a bottle Mister Jones,
Am           F  Dm
  Believe in me.
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Help me believe in anything.
       Am           F                    G C
'Cause I want to be someone who believes.

[Chorus]
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Mister Jones and me tell each other fairy tales      and we
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stare at the beatiful women,
F    G
Shes looking at you? Ah no no,
                C
shes looking at me,
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Smiling in the bright light,
                              C
Coming through in stereo, When
               F    G
everybody loves you,
You can never be lonely,

[Verse 3]
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I    will paint my picture,
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Paint myself in blue and red and black and grey,
                     F                 G
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful,
Yeah, well,
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you know gray is my favorite color
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I  felt so symbolic yesterday
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If I knew Picasso
        G                            C          F
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play Mister

[Chorus]
            G
Jones and me
                    Gsus4 G
Look into the future      Yeah,
C                         F    Fsus2
we stare at the beautiful women
F     G
She's looking at you I don't think so
                 C
She's looking at me
                F        G
Standing in the spotlight
                                  C
I bought myself a gray guitar When
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everybody loves me
                    Am Am
I will never be lonely

[Bridge]
                    F
I will never be lonely
               Am
Said I'm never gonna be
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Lonely
Am
  I wanna be a lion
F                                    Am
Yeah, everybody wants to pass as cats
We all wanna be big, big stars
Yeah,
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but we got different reasons for that
Am
  Believe in me
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'Cause I don't believe in anything
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And I  wanna be someone to believe, to believe,
                C
to believe Yeah!

[Chorus]
      F            G
Mister Jones and me
                            Gsus4
Stumbling through the Barrio
G     C                         F    Fsus2
Yeah, we stare at the beautiful women
F     G
She's perfect for you
                                    C
Man, there's got to be somebody for me
               F
I wanna be Bob Dylan
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Mister Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
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When everybody love you
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Oh! Son,
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that's just about as funky as you can be
      F            G
Mister Jones and me
                    Gsus4 G      C
Starin' at the video       When I
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look at the television,
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I     wanna see me
                        C
Staring right back at me
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We all wanna be big stars
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But we don't know why,
                              C
and we don't know how But when
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everybody loves me
          G                                 C
I'm wanna be just about as happy as I can be

[Outro]
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Mister Jones and me
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 We're gonna be big stars