Don Mclean - Vincent

[verse 1]
               G
Starry, starry night
                   Am
Paint your pallet blue and grey
              C
Look out on a summer's day
     D7                               G
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills,
                       Am
sketch the trees and the daffodils
                         C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills,
   D7                         G   C   G
in colours on the snowy linen land

[chorus]
              Am
And now I understand
D7                  G        Em
  what you tried to say to me
                         Am7
How you suffered for your sanity
D7                         Em
  How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did
A7          Am7   D7           G
not know how   perhaps they listen now

[verse 2]
               G
Starry, starry night
                Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
                  C
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D7                                G
reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue,
                 Am
morning fields of amber grain
               C
Weathered faces lined in pain,
D7
are soothed beneath the artist's
       G
loving hand

[chorus]
              Am
And now I understand
D7                  G        Em
  what you tried to say to me
                         Am7
How you suffered for your sanity
D7                         Em
  How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did
A7          Am7   D7           G
not know how   perhaps they listen now

[extended chorus]
                  Am7      D7
For they could not love you,
                       G     Em
but still your love was true
            Am7
And when no hope was left in sight on that
Cm6
starry, starry night
    G                F7           E7
You took your life as lovers often do,
     Am7
But I could have told you Vincent
     C
This world was never meant for one as
D7           G
beautiful as you

[verse 3]
               G
Starry, starry night
                  Am
Portraits hung in empty halls
                   C
Frameless heads on nameless walls,
      D7
with eyes that watch the world and
       G
can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met,
                 Am
the ragged men in ragged clothes
                      C
The silver thorn, the bloody rose, lie
D7                               G
crushed and broken on the virgin snow

[final chorus]
                  Am
And now I think I know
D7                 G          Em
  what you tried to say to me
                         Am7
How you suffered for your sanity
D7                          Em
  How you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not
A7               Am7   D7               G
 listening still     perhaps they never will
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