Chords for Don McLean - 'Vincent'.

_ _ _ _ First of all, it's weird for one guy to tell another he's too beautiful for the world and
_ Secondly, it's kind of _ _ _ well to me what really excited me about the song was hey, I thought gee I can actually
_ choose and absorb somehow into my own mind all the imagery I see in his paintings and
Then use this imagery to turn it around and tell his life story
This is the perfect way to tell the story of an artist because his work is his life
So once this is what happens to me often I will think of an idea and
_ _ I'll find a means by which to express the idea once I've gotten the means then the actual
_ _ _ _ Doing the actual
_ Enacting of the songwriting is is not too difficult
But it's when you go around thinking geez I wish I could write a song about Picasso.
How am I gonna do that?
You know, it's you can't you know, but if you start to think maybe about age
I'm just off the top of my head because something about him was always old and yet not old
so maybe with age somehow where there's a key or maybe _
but once you find the means
By which you want to get this idea said the other dimension so to speak then it all comes
Did you ever get any feedback from the artistic community?
_ No, but I got a lot of flack because I didn't go to the Van Gogh Museum the next week, you know _
_ Said he hasn't visited the museum _
Well, I haven't been to Holland, you know yet
when I went I went to the museum and they play the music they play the song in the museum every day and
The copy of the sheet music is buried in the time capsule under the museum.
How about that? _ _
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_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
Look out on a [C] summer's day _
[D] With eyes that know the darkness in [G] my soul
_ shadows on the hill _ _
_ _ _ _ Sketch the [A] trees and the daffodil
_ _ _ _ [Am]
Catch the [C] breeze and the winter chills _ _
[D] in [Am] colors on the snowy [G] linen land _
[C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] Now I [A] understand
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ [G] What you tried to say to me
_ [Em] _ How you suffered [Am] for your sanity
_ _ _ [D] _ How you tried [Em] to set them free?
Would not listen [A] they did not know how
_ _ [Am] _ _
_ [D] Perhaps they'll listen [G] now _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] starry starry night _ _ _ _ _ _
flaming flowers that brightly blaze _
_ _ [Am] _ _ Swirling [C] clouds in violet Haze
_ [Am] Reflecting Vincent's eyes [G] of China blue _ _
colors changing you _ _ _
Morning [A] feels of amber gray _
_ _ _ _ Weathered [C] faces lined
_ Are _ [D] _ soothed beneath the artists [G] loving hand _ now I [A] understand
_ [Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [G] What you tried to say to me
_ _ [Em] _ How you suffered [Am] for your sanity
_ _ _ [D] _ How you [Am] tried to set them [Em] free would not listen they [A] did not know how
_ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [D] Perhaps [G] they'll listen now
_ _ [G] But they could not [Am] love you
_ [D] _ _ _ Still your [G] love is true
_ _ [Bm] _ _ [E] _
_ _ [Em] And when [Am] no was left inside on [Cm] that starry starry night
_ [G] You took your life [C] as lovers often [E] do
_ _ _ [Am] But I could have told you this
This _ [C] _
world was never meant for [D] one as beautiful
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Are we [A] starry [G] night?
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] Portraits on in the empty [Am] hall _
_ _ _ _ Frameless heads [C] on nameless walls
_ _ [D] With eyes that [E] watch the world and [G] can't forget like the strangers that you've met _ _ _
the ragged [Am] men
_ ragged
_ _ _ _ _ _ Silver _ [C] thorn
_ _ _ I
_ [D] _ Crushed and broken on the virgin
[G] _ _ _ Now I think [Am] I know
What _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ [F#] _ you tried [G] to say to me
_ _ _ [Em] _
How [E] you suffered [Am] for your sanity
_ _ _ [D] _ _ How you tried to set [Em] them free would not listen
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ Perhaps _
[D] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ You
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Night everybody _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
[D#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _