Vincent Chords by Don Mclean

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