Don McLean - Vincent
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G. Am
Starry starry night , paint your palette blue and grey ,
Look out on a Csummers day , with
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Eyes that know the darkness in my soul .
G. Am
Shadows on the hills , sketch the trees and daffodills
Catch the breeze and Cwinter chills , in
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Colours on the snowy linen land .
CHORUS
Am. D7 G
Now I understand , what you tried to say to me ,
Em. Am7
How you suffered for your sanity ,
D7. Em
How you tried to set them free---
A7. Am7
They would not listen , they did not know how ,
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Perhaps they'll listen now .
VERSE 2 .
G.
Starry starry night ,
flaming flowers that brightly bAmlaze ,
Swirling clouds in vCiolet haze.
D7. G
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue ,
G.
Colours changing hue ,
morning fields of amber graAmin ,
Weathered faces Clined in pain are
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Soothed beneath the artists' loving hand .
CHORUS.
Am D7. G
Now I understand , what you tried to say to me ,
Em. Am7
How you suffered for your sanity ,
D7. Em
How you tried to set them free ---
A7. Am7
They would not listen , they did not know how ,
D7. G. Gsus. G
Perhaps they'll listen now .
BRIDGE
G. Am7
For they could not love you ,
D7. G. F. E
But still your love was true ,
And when no hoAm7pe was left in sight
On that stCmarry starry night
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You took your life as lovers often do .
But IAm7 could have told you Vincent ,
This worCld was never meant,for
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one as beautiful as you .
VERSE 3
G. Am.
Starry starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
Frameless heads on nCameless walls , with.
D7. G
Eyes that watch the world and can't forget .
Like strangers that you've mGet ,
Am.
The ragged men in ragged clothes ,
The silver thorn of bCloody rose , lie
D7Crushed and broken , on the virgin Gsnow .
CHORUS B
Am D7. G
Now I think I know , what you tried to say to me ,
Em. Am7
How you suffered for your sanity ,
D7. Em
How you tried to set them free --
A7. Am7
They would not listen,they're not listening still ,
D7. G. Gsus G
Perhaps they never will