Vincent

by Don McLean

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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

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