Julio Iglesias – Vincent Starry Starry Night (Guitar)

Capo 3
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1990 - Julio Iglesias covered this song on his album Starry Night and it was later included on the compilation album My Life: The Greatest Hits (1998) Capo III [Verse 1]
              D                         Em
Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and gray,

              G
look out on a summer's day

     A                                 D
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul.
[Verse 2]
               D                               Em
Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils,

                         G
catch the breeze and the winter chills

   A                         D
in colors on the snowy linen land.  
[Chorus]
            Em   A                   D
Now I understand   what you tried to say to me,

                          G        A
how you suffered for your sanity,

                          Bm
how you tried to set them free.  

                               Em            A
They would not listen they did not know how.

                       D
perhaps they'll listen now . 
[Verse 3]
              D                           Em
Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze,

                   G
swirling clouds in violet haze

  A                                D
reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
[Verse 4]
                D                      Em
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain,

                G
weathered faces lined in pain

    A                                   D
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand. 
[Chorus]
            Em   A                   D
Now I understand   what you tried to say to me,

                          G        A
how you suffered for your sanity,

                          Bm
how you tried to set them free.  

                               Em            A
They would not listen they did not know how.

                       D
perhaps they'll listen now. 
[Bridge]
                   Em        A                          D    A Bm
For they could not love you,    but still your love was true,

            G                            A#
and when no hope was left inside on that starry starry night  

              D                   B7
you took your life as lovers often do,

                 Em
but I could have told you Vincent,

     A                                A7           D    G D
this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.  
[Verse 5]
              D                        Em
Starry starry night, portraits hung in empty halls,

                   G
frameless heads on nameless walls

     A                                   D
with eyes that watch the world and can't forget.
[Verse 6]
                               D                      Em
Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes,

                    G
the silver thorn of bloody rose

    A                                D
lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.  
[Outro]
              Em   A                    D
Now I think I know    what you tried to say to me,

                          Em      A                           Bm
how you suffered for your sanity,   how you tried to set them free.

                                           G         A              D
They did not listen, they're not listening still, perhaps they never will.