Vincent
Don McLean • Key:
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Vincent
Don McLean
Starry starry
G
night, paint your palette
Am
blue and grey
Look out on a
C
summer's day with
D7
eyes that know the darkness in my
G
soul
Shadows on the
G
hills, sketch the trees and the
Am
daffodills
Catch the breeeze and the
C
winter chills, in
D7
colors on the snowy linen
G
land
C
G
Chorus
Now I under
Am
stand
D7
what you tried to
G
say to me
Em
How you suffered for you
Am7
sanity
D7
How you tried to set them
Em
free
They would not listen they did
A7
not know
Am7
how
D7
Perhaps they'll listen
G
now
Starry starry
G
night, flaming flowers that
Am
brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in
C
violet haze
D7
reflect in Vincent's eyes of chine
G
blue
Colors changing
G
hue, morning fields of amber
Am
grain
Weathered faces
C
lined in pain are
D7
soothed 'neath the artists's loving
G
hand
C
G
chorus
G
For they could not
Am7
love you,
D7
but still your love was
G
true
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E
And when no
Am7
hope was left in sight, on that
Cm
starry starry night
You
G
took your life as
F7
lovers often
E7
do,
But I
Am7
could have told you, Vincent,
This
C
world was never meant for one as
D7
beautiful as you
Stary, starry
G
night, portraits hung in
Am
empty halls
Frameless heads on
C
nameless walls with
D7
eyes that watch the world and can't for
G
get.
Like the stranger that you've
G
met, the ragged man in
Am
ragged clothes
The silver thorn of
C
bloody rose, lie
D7
crushed and broken on the virgin
G
snow
C
G
Now I th
Am
ink I know
D7
what you tried to
G
say to me
Em
How you suffered for you
Am7
sanity
D7
How you tried to set them
Em
free
They would not listen they're
A7
not listening
Am7
still
D7
Perhaps they never
G
will
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