Don McLean – Vincent (Guitar Tab)

[Verse 1]
           G                                Am
 Starry, starry night;               Paint your palette blue and gray;
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           C                D                           1 verse only
  Look out on a summer's day;
              With eyes that know the darkness in my soul...
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           G                                Am
Shadows on the hills;               Sketch the trees and the daffodils;
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           C                D
Catch the breeze and the winter chills; In colors on the snowy linen land.
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[Chorus]
           Am              D7      D                    Em
Now I understand               What you tried to say, to me; And how you suffered for your
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  Am7                D7      D
sanity;              And how you tried to set them free: They would not listen; they did
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    A7            Am      D7        G
    not know how --     Perhaps they'll listen now.   *first chorus only*
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[Verse 2]
           G                                Am
Starry, starry night;               Flaming flowers that brightly blaze; 
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   C                D                           1 verse only
Swirling clouds in violet haze; Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
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           G                                Am
  Colors changing hue;              Morning fields of amber grain;
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           C                D
  Weathered faces lined in pain; Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.
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[Chorus]
           Am              D7      D                    Em
Now I understand               What you tried to say, to me; And how you suffered for your
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  Am7                D7      D
sanity;              And how you tried to set them free: They would not listen; they did
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    A7            Am      D7        G
  not know how --      Perhaps they'll listen now.
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[Bridge]
       Am              D7      D      G                Em
For they could not love you; But still, your love was true; And when no
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   Am7     Cm
  hope was left inside; On that
           starry, starry night; You
                 took your life as lovers often do --
                                                But I could've told you, Vincent:
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   Em      Am7     C                D7         G        Am7    G
        This       world was never meant; For one as beautiful as you.
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[Verse 3]
           G                                Am
  Starry, starry night; Portraits hung in empty halls;
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            C                D                           1 verse only
  Frameless heads on nameless walls; With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
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           G                                Am
  Like the strangers that you've met; The ragged men in ragged clothes;
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           C                D
  The silver thorn, a bloody rose; Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.
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[Chorus]
           Am              D7      D                   Em
Now I think                    What you tried to say, to me; And how you suffered for your
         I know
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  Am7                D7      D
sanity;              And how you tried to set them free: They would not listen; they're not
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    A7            Am      D7        G
listening still --        Perhaps they never will.
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