Don McLean – Vincent (Guitar Fingerpicking)

               G     Gsus4  G
Starry, starry night,

                   Am       Asus2   Am
Paint your palette blue and grey.

Am            Am/C     Asus2/C
Look out on a summer's day

     D7                                G
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

Gsus4          G     Gsus4  G
Shadows on the hills,

G                        Am   Asus2   Am
Sketch the trees and the daffodils,

Am                       Am/C   Asus2/C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills

   D7                         G
In colours on the snowy linen land.

G          Am    Asus2   D7
Now I understand

D7                G      G/F#  Em
What you tried to say to me.

Em                        Am7     D7
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
Perhaps they'll listen now?

               G      Gsus4  G
Starry, starry night,

G                    Am       Asus2  Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,

Am                 Am/C   Asus2/C
Swirling clouds in violet haze

  D7                               G
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of China blue.

Gsus4            G   Gsus4  G
Colours changing hue,

G                 Am    Asus2   Am
Morning fields of amber grain,

Am              Am/C     Asus2/C
Weathered faces lined in pain,

    D7                                  G
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

G          Am    Asus2  D7
Now I understand

D7                G      G/F#  Em
What you tried to say to me.

Em                        Am7     D7
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
Perhaps they'll listen now.

    G              Am      Asus4  D7
For they could not love you,

    D7                  G    G/F#  Em
But still your love was true.

            Am7
And when no hope was left in sight

        Cm
On that starry, starry night,

    G                 F6#11     E7
You took your life as lovers often do.

                 Am7
But I could have told you, Vincent,

     C               Am7
This world was never meant for one

   D7           G
As beautiful as you.

               G     Gsus4  G
Starry, starry night,

G                 Am    Asus2  Am
Portraits hung in empty halls,

Am                 Am/C     Asus2/C
Frameless heads on nameless walls,

     D7                                     G
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.

         Gsus4                 G   Gsus4  G
Like the strangers that you've met,

G                 Am     Asus2   Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes,

Am                    Am/C   Asus2/C
The silver thorn, the bloody rose

    D7                               G
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

G             Am    Asus2  D7
Now I think I know

D7                G      G/F#  Em
What you tried to say to me,

Em                        Am7    D7
How you suffered for your sanity,

D7                        Em
How you tried to set them free.

Em
They would not listen,

            A7               Am7
They're not listening still,

   D7              G
Perhaps they never will.

G5              3x003x
G(*2)           3x000x

G5              3x003x
G(*2)           3x000x

G               3x0003
G(*3)           3200xx

Gadd9           3202xx
G(*2)           3x000x