Vincent Chords by Don Mclean

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