Chords for Vincent - Don McLean [Official Video]

[N] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
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_ _ Starry, starry night, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
paint your [A] palette blue and gray. _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ Look out on [C] a summer's day _ with _ [D] eyes [A] that know the [D] darkness in my [G] soul.
_ _ Shadows on the _ hills, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ sketch the [A] trees and the daffodils.
_ _ _ _ _ _ Catch the [C] breeze and the winter _ chills _
[G] _ in [D] colors
on the [G] snowy linen land.
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ Now [Am] I understand _ _ what _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ you [G] tried to say to [D] me,
_ [Em] _ _ _ and how you suffered [Am] for your sanity, _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ how you tried [Em] to set them free.
_ They would not listen, they [A] did not know how. _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _
Perhaps they'll listen [G] _ now. _ _
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Starry, starry _ night, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ flaming [A] flowers that brightly _ blaze. _
_ [Am] _ _ _ Swirling clouds [C] in violet [Em] haze _ [G] reflect [D] in Vincent's eyes of [G] china blue.
_ _ _ [Em] Colors [G] change in hue. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ Morning feels [A] of amber grain.
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_ Weathered faces [C] lined in pain _ _ [D] are soothed beneath the artist's loving [G] hand. _ _ _
Now I [Am] understand _ _ _ what _ [D] _ _ _ _
you tried [G] to say to me, _
[Em] _ _ _ and how you suffered [Am] for your sanity, _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ how you tried [G] to [Em] set them free.
_ They would not listen, they [A] did not know how. _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ Perhaps _ [G] they'll listen now. _ _
_ Boy, they could [Am] not love you.
_ _ _ [D] _ _ Still, your love [G] was true. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ And when [Am] no hope was left in sight on [Cm] that starry, starry night, _ _
[G] you took your life as lovers [E] often do. _ _ _ _ _
But [Am] I could [A] have told you, Vincent, _
[C] _ _ _ this world was never meant [D] for one as beautiful _ [G] as you. _ _ _ _
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Starry, starry night, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
portraits hung [A] in empty halls, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ frameless [C] heads on nameless _ walls,
with [G] eyes that watch [D] the world and [G]
can't forget,
_ _ like the strangers that you've _ met. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ The ragged men [A] in ragged clothes,
_ _ _ _ _ _ a [Am] silver thorn, a bloody [C] rose, _ _
_ lie [D] crushed and broken on the [G] virgin snow. _ _ _
Now I [Am] think I know _ _ what _ [D] _ _ _ _ you [G] tried to say to me,
_ _ _ [Em] _ and how you suffered for [Am] your sanity, _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ and how you [Am] tried to set [E] them free.
_ [Em] They would not listen, they're [A] not listening still.
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_ [D] _ Perhaps _ they never will. _ _ _ _ _ _
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