Don McLean – Vincent (Ukulele)

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[Verse]
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Starry starry night

                   Am
Paint your palette blue and grey

              C                 D7                                G
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul

                                              Am
Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils

                         C                D7                        G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills in colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]
C   G                   Am     D7                    G           Em
             Now I understand      what you tried to say to me

                          Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free

                                A7          Am7   D7                  G
They would not listen, they did not know how   perhaps they'll listen now
[Verse]
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Starry starry night

                     Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

                   C             D7                               G
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

                                       Am
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain

                C                 D7                                  G
Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Chorus]
           Am     D7                    G           Em
Now I understand      what you tried to say to me

                          Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free

                                A7          Am7   D7                  G
They would not listen, they did not know how   perhaps they'll listen now
[Bridge]
                   Am7           D7                  G
For they could not love you, but still your love was true

Em              Am7                          Cm6
    And when no hope was left inside on that starry starry night

    G                 F7           E7        Am7
You took your life as lovers often do, but I could have told you Vincent

     C                                D7           G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Verse]
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Starry starry night

                  Am
Portraits hung in empty halls

                   C                   D7                                     G
Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget

                                                      Am
Like the strangers that you’ve met, the ragged men in ragged clothes

                      C               D7                               G
The silver thorn, the bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Chorus]
              Am    D7                    G           Em
Now I think I know      what you tried to say to me

                          Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free

                                   A7               Am7    D7             G
They would not listen, they’re not listening still      perhaps they never will