Chords for Don McLean - Vincent (Live in Austin)

_ Starry, starry _ nights _
_ _ _ Ain't your [A] palette blue and grey?
[Am] _ _ _ _ _ [C] Look out on a summer's day
_ [D] With eyes that know the darkness in [G] my soul
_ _ [Em] Shadows on [G] the hills
_ _ _ _ _ _ Sketch [A] the trees and the [E] daffodils
_ [Am] _ _
_ Catch [C] the breeze and the winter chills
[D] _ In colors on the snowy linen [G] land
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ Now I [A] _ understand
[Am] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[D] _ What you [G] tried to say [F#m] to [E] me
_ [Em] How you suffered [Am] for your sanity
_ _ [D] _ _ How you tried to set [E] them free
_ [Em] They would not [E] listen, they did not [A] know how
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] Perhaps they'll listen _ [G] now _ _
_ _ _ [D] Starry, starry _ nights
_ Flaming _ _ _ [Am] flowers that brightly blaze _ _ _ _
_ Swirling [C] clouds in violet haze _
[D] Reflect in Vincent's eyes of [G] china blue
_ Colors change in hue _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Morning [Am] fields of amber grain _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] Weathered faces lined in pain
_ Are soothed beneath the artist's [G] loving hand
_ _ Now [A] I [Am] understand
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
[G] What you tried to say [Bm] to me
_ [Em] _
_ _ [Em] How you suffered [Am] for your sanity
_ _ _ [D] How you tried [Em] to set them free
They would not listen, they did [A] not know how
_ _ _ [Am] _ _
[D] Perhaps they'll listen [G] now
_ [Am] _ _
[G] For they could not [Am] love you
_ [D] Still _ _ your love was [G] true _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ And [Am] when all hope was left in sight
On that [Cm] starry, starry night
You [G] took your life [F] as lovers [E] often do
_ _ _ [Am] But I could have told you, Vincent
[C] _ _ _ This world was never meant [D] for one
As beautiful _ [G] as you
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ Starry, [G] starry nights _
Portraits _ _ _ _ hung [Am] in empty halls _ _ _ _ _ _
Frameless [C] heads on nameless walls
With [D] eyes that watch the world and can't [G] forget _
[Em] Like the strangers that you've met
The _ _ _ [G] _ ragged men [Am] in ragged clothes
_ [G] The [Am] _ _ _
silver [C] thorn, a bloody rose _
[D] Like crushed and [D] broken on the virgin [G] snow
_ Now I [Am] think I know
What _ [D] _ _ _ _ you [G] tried to say to [Bm] me
_ [E] How _ [Em] you suffered [Am] for your sanity _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ How you tried [Em] to set them free
They would not listen, they're not [A] listening still
_ _ [Am] _ _ _
[D] _ Perhaps they never [G] _
_ will _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ _ [G] Thank you
_ [N] _