           | Strum pattern: DOWN down up DOWN down up Verse 1 Starry Starry [G] Night [G] Paint your palette [Am] blue and grey [Am] Look out on a [C] summer's day With [D7] eyes that know the darkness in my [G] soul Shadows on the [G] hills [G] Sketch the trees and the [Am] daffodills [Am] Catch the breeze and the [C] winter chills In [D7] colors on the snowy linen [G] land [C] - [G] Chorus 1 [G] Now I under- [Am] stand [D7] [D7] What you tried [G] to say to me [Em] [Em] How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity [D7] [D7] How you tried to set them [Em] free [Em] They would not listen They did [A7] not know how [Am7] [D7] Perhaps they'll listen [G] now Verse 2 Starry Starry [G] Night [G] Flaming flowers that [Am] brightly blaze [Am] Swirling clouds in [C] violet haze Re- [D7] flect in Vincent's eyes of china [G] blue Colors changing [G] hue [G] Morning fields of [Am] amber grain [Am] Weathered faces [C] lined in pain Are [D7] soothed beneath the artist's loving [G] hand [C] - [G] Bridge 1 [G] For they could not [Am7] love you [D7] [D7] But still your love was [G] true [E] [E] And when no [Am7] hope was left in sight [Am7] On that [Cm] starry starry night You [G] took your life as [F7] lovers often [D7] do But I [Am7] could have told you, Vincent This [C] world was never meant [C] For one as [D7] beautiful as [G] you Verse 3 Starry Starry [G] Night [G] Portraits hung in [Am] empty halls [Am] Frameless heads on [C] nameless walls With [D7] eyes that watch the world and can't for- [G] get Like the strangers that you've [G] met [G] The ragged man in [Am] ragged clothes [Am] The silver thorn of [C] bloody rose Lie [D7] crushed and broken on the virgin [G] snow [C] - [G] Chorus 2 [G] Now I think I [Am] know [D7] [D7] What you tried [G] to say to me [Em] [Em] How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity [D7] [D7] How you tried to set them [Em] free [Em] They would not listen They're not [A7] listening still [Am7] [D7] Perhaps they never [G] will... Bridge 2 [G] For they could not [Am7] love you [D7] [D7] But still your love was [G] true [E] [E] And when no [Am7] hope was left in sight [Am7] On that [Cm] starry starry night You [G] took your life as [F7] lovers often [E7] do But I [Am7] could have told you, Vincent This [C] world was never meant [C] For one as [D7] beautiful as [G] you |
June 24, 2011
Vincent
by Don McLean
June 17, 2011
June 11, 2011
House of the Rising Sun
by The Animals
***Chords interpreted (with a little variation) by "Ukulele Mike" as shared on YouTube.
     | There [Am] is a [C] house in [D] New [F] Orleans they [Am] call the [C] Rising [E] Sun And its [Am] been the [C] ruin of [D] many a poor [F] boy, and [Am] God, I [E] know, I'm [Am] one. [C] [D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E] My [Am] mother, [C] was a [D] tailor [F] She [Am] sewed my [C] new blue [E] jeans My [Am] father [C] was a [D] gambling [F] man [Am] Down in [E] New [Am] Orleans [C] [D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E] Now [Am] mothers, [C] tell your [D] children [F] Not to [Am] do what [C] I have [E] done Don't [Am] spend your [C] life in [D] sweet [F] misery in the [Am] house of the [E] rising [Am] sun [C] [D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E] [Am] |
***Chords interpreted (with a little variation) by "Ukulele Mike" as shared on YouTube.
June 4, 2011
Don't Fence Me In
by Roy Rogers
      | Intro [D] Wild Cat Kelly, [G] lookin' mighty [D] pale Was standin' by the sheriff's [A7] side And [D] when that sheriff said "I'm [G] sendin' you to [D] jail" Wild Cat [A] raised his head and [D] cried Verse 1 [D] Oh give me land, lots land under starry skies above Don't fence me [A7] in Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me [D] in Chorus 1 Let me be by myself in the evenin' [D7] breeze [G] Listen to the murmur of the cotton wood trees [D] Send me off forever but I [B7] ask you [Gm] please [D] Don't [A7] fence me [D] in Verse 2 Just turn me [G] loose let me straddle my old saddle Underneath the western [D] skies On my Ca- [G] yuse let me wander over yonder Till I see the mountains [D] rise Chorus 2 I want to ride to the ridge where the west [D7] commences And [G] gaze at the moon till I loose my senses I [D] can't look at hovels and I [B7] can't stand [Gm] fences [D] Don't [A7] fence me [D] in |
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