Vincent Chords by Don Mclean

_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] See a starry night in _ _ _
_ [Am] _ the gray
Look _ [C]
out on a summer's day
[D] With eyes that know the [G] darkness in my soul
_ Shadows on the hills _
_ _ [Am] Sketch the trees and the daffodils
_ [C] Catch the breeze and the winter chills
[G]
[D] In colors on the [G] snowy
_ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ Now [Am] I understand
_ _ [D] _
What [G] you tried to say to [Em] me
[C] How [Em] you [Am] suffered for your sanity
[D] _
How you tried [Em] to set them free
They would not listen, [A] they did not know how
[Am] _ [D] Perhaps [G] they'll listen now _ _ _ _
Starry, starry night
_ _ _ _ Flaming [Am] flowers that brightly blaze
_ [C] Swirling clouds in violet haze
[D] [Am] Reflect in Vincent's [G] eyes of China blue
Colors changing hue _
Morning [Am] fields of amber grain _ _
[C] Weathered faces lined in pain
[D] Are soothed beneath the [G] artist's loving hand
Now I [Am] understand
_ [D] _ _ What [G] you tried to say to me
[Em] [C] How you [Em] suffered [Am] for your sanity
_ [D] How you tried [Em] to set them free
They would not listen, [A] they did not know how _
[Am] _ [Dm] Perhaps [G] they'll listen now
For they [Am] could not love you
[D] _ But still your [G] love was true
_ [Em] And when [Am] no hope was left in sight
[Cm] On that starry, starry night
[G]
You took your [F] life as lovers [E] often do _
[A] But I could have told you, [Am] Vincent
[C] This world was never meant for [D] one as beautiful [G] as you
[C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ Starry, starry night _
_ _ Portraits [Am] hung in empty halls
_ [C] Frameless heads on nameless walls
[D] With eyes that watch the [G] world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men [Am] in ragged clothes
A silver [C] thorn, a bloody rose
[D] Lie [Am] crushed [D] and broken on the [G] virgin snow
_ [Am] [D] Now I [Am] think I know
[D]
What _ you [G] tried to say to me
[Em] How you suffered [Am] for your sanity
[D] _
How you tried [Em] to set them free
They would not listen, [A] they're not listening still
_ [Am] Perhaps [D] _
[C] they [G] never will _ _ _
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