Vincent - Don Mclean   Ori: G

Starry Starry night   paint your palette blue and grey   [G   Am]
look out on a summer's day   [C]
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.   [D   G]
Shadows on the hills   sketch the trees and the daffodils   [G    Am]
catch the breeze and the winter chills   [C]
in colors on the snowy linen land.   [D   G]

Now I understand what you tried to say to me   [Am  D   G D/F# Em]
                                           Am      D                                      Em

how you suffered for your sanity  how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen   they did not know how   [A]

perhaps they'll listen now.   [D   G]

Starry Starry night    flaming flowers that brightly blaze   [G  Am]
swirling clouds in violet haze    [C]

reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.   [D  G]
Colors changing hue   morning fields of amber grain   [G   Am]
weathered faces lined in pain   [C]
are soothed beneath   the artist's loving hand   [D   G]

Repeat CHORUS

                               Am         D                                    G

For they could not love you   but still your love was true
Em               Am                                           Cm

and when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night.
         G                       F                  E 

You took your life as lovers often do
            Am

But I   could have told you   Vincent
         C                                                  D                 G      DC

this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Starry Starry night   portraits hung in empty halls   [G  Am]
frameless heads on nameless walls   [C]
with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.  [D  G]
                                               G                                 Am         

Like the stranger that you've met   the ragged men in ragged clothes
the silver thorn of bloddy rose  [C]
lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.   [D       G]

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me [Am D   G D/F# Em]
                                           Am     D                                       Em

how you suffered for your sanity  how you tried to set them free
They would not listen   they're not listening still  [A]
perhaps they never will.   [D   G]