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VINCENT (Starry, Starry Night) Don McLean Starry,
starry night, paint your palette blue and grey Look
out on a summer's day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul Shadows
on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch
the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land G - - - / / Am - - - /
/ C - - - / D7 - - - / G - - - / G - - - / / Am - - - /
/ C - - - / D7 - - - / G - C/G - // C1: Now I understand what you tried
to say to me How
you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free They
would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps
they'll listen now G - - - / Am - - - / D7 - - -
/ G - - - - / Em - - - / Am7 - - - / D7 - - - / Em - - - /
[1&3] A7 - - - / Am7 - D7 - / G - -
- / // Starry,
starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling
clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue Colors
changing hue, morning field of amber grain Weathered
faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artist¡¯s loving hand C1: Now I understand what you tried
to say to me How
you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free They
would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps
they'll listen now B:
For they could not love you, but still your love was true And
when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night You
took your life, as lovers often do, but I could have told you, Vincent This
world was never meant for one as beautiful as you G - - - / Am7 - - - / D7 - - -
/ G - - - /Em - - - / Am7 - - - / Cm6 - - - / G - F7 - / E7 - - - / Am7 - - - / C - - -
/ D7 - - - / G - - - / // Starry,
starry night, portraits hung in empty halls Frameless
heads on nameless walls, With
eyes that watch the world and can't forget Like
the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes The
silver thorn of bloody rose, lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow C2: Now I think I know what you tried
to say to me How
you suffered for your sanity, how you tried to set them free They
would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will ¡¡ |