Mr. Jones

Sha la la la la la Uh, huh..

was down at the New Amsterdam
staring at this yellow haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up this conversation
with this black haired flamenco dancer
She __________while his father __________ (the) guitar.
She's suddenly beautiful we all _______ something beautiful
I wish I was beautiful

So __________ dance this silence down through the morning. sha la la la la la Uh, huh...
Cut up Maria! __________ me some of them Spanish dances.
_________ me a bottle, Mr. Jones
____________ in me Help me _________ in anything
Cause I wanna be someone who ____________

Mr. Jones and me __________ each other fairy tales
__________ at the beautiful women
She's looking at you. Ah no, no she's looking at me.
Smiling in the bright lights. Coming through in stereo
When everybody __________ you, you can never be lonely

I will paint my picture
_________ myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors ________ very, very meaningful
(Yeah, you know) Gray ________ my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and _____

Mr. Jones and me ________ into the future
__________ 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 gray guitar
When everybody __________ me, I will never be lonely

I ________ to be a lion
Everybody wanna pass as cats
We all _________ to be big big stars,
but we got different reasons for that.
__________ in me because I don't ___________ in anything and I ________ to be someone to _________, to _________, to __________.

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
Yeah we _________ at the beautiful women
She's perfect for you, man, there's got to be somebody for me.
I __________ to be Bob Dylan
Mr. Jones ________ he was someone just a little more funky
When everybody ______ you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.

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

1. Some verbs were taken from the song. All of them are in the Present Simple. Take a look at them below and fill the blanks of the song.

want, look, believe, wish, tell, love, stare, paint, come, dance, play, show, pass, be

2. Which verbs from the song are in the 3rd person of singular? Write them down.

3. This is a kind of story. Can you identify in the text parts of this story like characters, place, actions and feelings? If so, write them down. Check that with classmates and your teacher.