Mr. Jones

Mr. Jones: Chords

Intro:
LAm  FA  REm   SOL
             ...Sha la la la la la la

LAm  FA  SOL

LAm                    FA
 I was down at the New Amsterdam
REm              SOL
 Staring at this yellow-haired girl
      LAm                    FA
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
       SOL
With a black-haired flamenco dancer
          LAm                 FA
You know she dances while his father plays guitar
REm               SOL 
  She's suddenly beautiful
       LAm                 FA
And we all want something beautiful
SOL 
 Man, I wish I was beautiful

        LAm                FA
So come dance this silence down through the morning

REm      SOL
  Sha la la la la la
LAm  FA  SOL

LAm         FA   REm
 Cut up, Maria!
                     SOL
Show me some of them Spanish dances
LAm           FA            SOL
And pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
LAm         FA   REm
 Believe in me
                   SOL
Help me believe in anything
       LAm        FA              SOL
'Cause I wanna be someone who believes

DO   FA          SOL
 Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
     DO                       FA
And we stare at the beautiful women
       SOL
"She's looking at you
                              DO
Oh, no, no, she's looking at me"
               FA
Smiling in the bright lights
SOL
 Coming through in stereo
     DO         FA       SOL
When everybody love you,
 
You can never be lonely

      LAm            FA       REm
Well, I'mma paint my picture
                SOL                          LAm
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
                       FA               SOL     
All of the beautiful colors are very-very meaningful
                   LAm                   FA
Yeah well you know gray is my favorite color
 REm          SOL
I felt so symbolic yesterday
LAm          FA
 If I knew Picasso
        SOL                           DO
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
 
    FA          SOL             
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
        DO                  FA
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
          SOL
"She's looking at you
                                  DO
I don't think so She's looking at me"
                 FA        SOL
Standing in the spotlight

I bought myself a gray guitar
     DO         FA      SOL
When everybody love me,
                    LAm
I will never be lonely
                FA7+
I will never be lonely
               LAm         SOL
Said I'm never gonna be lonely,
LAm                FA
 I wanna be a lion
                         LAm
Everybody wanna pass as cats

We all want to be big big stars,
  SOL
But we got different reasons for that
LAm
 Believe in me
         FA
'Cause I don't believe in anything
    LAm
And I wanna be someone to believe
SOL
 to believe, to believe

DO   FA          SOL
 Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
      DO                        FA
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
            SOL
"She's perfect for you, man
                                DO
there's got to be somebody for me"
               FA
I wanna be Bob Dylan
    SOL                                                               
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone

just a little more funky
DO               FA
When everybody love you,
      SOL    
Oh, son, that's just about as funky as you can be
DO   FA          SOL 
 Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
       DO               FA
When I look at the television,
         SOL                          DO
I wanna see me staring right back at me
                  FA
We all want to be big stars,
       SOL
But we don't know why

And we don't know how
         DO          FA
But when everybody love me,
         SOL                              DO
I wanna be just about as happy as I can be
    FA            SOL
Mr. Jones and me 

we're gonna be big stars 

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Mr. Jones è un brano composto e inciso dai Counting Crows, contenuto nell'album August and Everything After pubblicato nel 1993. Disco d'esordio per la band di San Francisco, riscuote grande successo specialmente in patria dove si aggiudicano ben sette dischi di platino e oltre 7 milioni di copie vendute. La canzone è il primo singolo estratto dal disco, hit che ha fatto il giro del mondo. Una ballata pop-rock dal sound che influenzerà le rock-band future, americane ed europee.

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L'autore del post

Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).