{title: Vincent}
{artist: Don McLean}
{define: Am6 frets 2 0 2 0 fingers 1 0 2 0}

Starry starry [G] night [Gsus4] [G], Paint your palette [Am] blue and grey 
Look out on a [C] summer's day, With [D] eyes that know the darkness in my [G] soul

 
Shadows on the [G] hills [Gsus4] [G], Sketch the trees and the [Am] daffodils
Catch the breeze and the [C] winter chills, In [D] colours on the snowy linen [G] land [C] [G]


Now I under[Am]stand [Am6]
What you tried to [G] say to [Gmaj7] me [Em7]
How you suffered for you [Am] sanity [Am6]
And how you tried to set them [Em] free 
They would not listen they did [A] not know how [Am] 
Per[Am6]haps they'll listen [G] now

Starry starry [G] night [Gsus4] [G]
Flaming flowers that [Am] brightly blaze 
Swirling clouds in [C] violet haze
Re[D]flect in Vincent's eyes of china [G] blue

Colors changing [G] hue [Gsus4] [G]
Morning fields  of [Am] amber grain 
Weathered faces [C] lined in pain 
Are [D] soothed beneath the artist’s loving [G] hand [C] [G]

Now I under[Am]stand [Am6]
What you tried to [G] say to [Gmaj7] me [Em7]  
How you suffered for you [Am] sanity [Am6]
And how you tried to set them [Em] free
They would not listen they did [A] not know how [Am] 
Per[Am6]haps they'll listen [G] now

For they could not [Am] love you [Am6]
But still your love was [G] true [Gmaj7] [Em7]
And when no [Am] hope was left in sight
On that [Cm] starry starry night
You [G] took your life as [F7] lovers often [E7] do 
But I [Am] could have told you Vincent 
This [C] world was never meant for one as [D] beautiful as you [G] [C] [G]

Starry starry [G] night [Gsus4] [G]
Portraits hung  in [Am] empty halls 
Frameless heads on [C]nameless walls 
With [D] eyes that watch the world and can't for[G]get

Like the stranger that you've [G] met [Gsus4] [G]
The ragged man in [Am] ragged clothes 
The silver thorn of [C] bloody rose
Lie [D] crushed and broken on the virgin [G] snow

Now I think I [Am] know [Am6]
What you tried to [G] say to [Gmaj7] me [Em7] 
And how you suffered for you [Am] sanity [Am6]
How  you tried to set them [Em] free
They would not listen they're not [A] listening still [Am] 
Per[Am6]haps they never [G] will [C] [G] [Gsus4] [G]