Chords for Vincent (Re-Recorded In Stereo)

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