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VINCENT
Don McLean
Starry, starry [G] night [Am7][G]
Paint your palette [Am7] blue and gray
Look out on a [C] summer's day
With [D] eyes that know the darkness in my [G] soul
Shadows on the [G] hills [Am7][G]
Sketch the trees and the [Am7] daffodils
Catch the breeze and the [C] winter chills
In [D] colors on the snowy linen [G] land
Now I under-[Am7]-stand [D]
What you tried to [G] say to [Gmaj7] me [Em]
How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity [D]
How you tried to set them [Em] free
They would not listen they did [A7] not know how
[Am7] Per-[D]-haps they'll listen [G] now
Starry, starry [G] night, [Am7][G]
Flaming flowers that [Am7] brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in [C] violet haze
Re-[D]-flect in Vincent's eyes of china [G] blue
Colors changing [G] hue, [Am7][G]
Morning fields of [Am7] amber grain
Weathered faces [C] lined in pain
Are [D] soothed beneath the artist's loving [G] hand
Now I under-[Am7]-stand
[D] What you tried to [G] say to [Gmaj7] me [Em]
How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity [D]
How you tried to set them [Em] free
They would not listen they did [A7] not know how
[Am7] Per-[D]-haps they'll listen [G] now
For they could not [Am7] love you [D]
But still your love was [G] true [Gmaj7][Em]
And when no [Am7] hope was left in sight
On that [Cm7] starry, starry night
You [G] took your life as [F] lovers often [E] do
But I [Am7] could have told you Vincent
[C] This world was never meant for one as [D] beautiful as [G] you
Starry, starry [G] night, [Am7][G]
Portraits hung in [Am7] empty halls
Frameless heads on [C] nameless walls
With [D] eyes that watch the world and can't [G] forget
Like the strangers that you've [G] met, [Am7][G]
The ragged men in [Am7] ragged clothes,
The silver thorn of [C] bloody rose
Lie [D] crushed and broken on the virgin [G] snow
Now I think I [Am7] know
[D] What you tried to [G] say to [Gmaj7] me
[Em] How you suffered for your [Am7] sanity,
[D] How you tried to set them [Em] free
They did not listen they're not [A7] listening still
[Am7] Per-[D]-haps they never [G] will
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