Chords to Vincent by Don McLean

Verse 1

Starry, starry nighGt

Paint your palette Amblue and grey

Look out on a Csummer’s day

With D7eyes that know the darkness in my Gsoul

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and thAme daffodils

Catch the breeze and the Cwinter chills

In D7colors on the snowy linen GlandC

Chorus

Now I undeAmrstand

D7   What you tried to Gsay to meEm

And how you suffered for yourAm7 sanity

D7And how you tried to set themEm free

They would not listen, they did A7not know howAm7

PerD7haps they’ll lisGten now

Verse 2

Starry, starry Gnight

Flaming flowers Amthat brightly blaze

Swirling clouds inC violet haze

D7Reflect in Vincent’s eyes of chinaG blue

Colors changing hue

Morning fields ofAm amber grain

Weathered facesC lined in pain

Are D7soothed beneath the artist’s loving Ghand

Chorus

Now I undeAmrstand D7

What you tried to Gsay to meEm

And how you suffered for yourAm7 sanity

D7And how you tried to set themEm free

They would not listen, they did A7not know howAm7

PerD7haps they’ll lisGten now

Bridge

GFor they could notAm7 love youD7

But still your love wasG true Em

And when no Am7hope was left in sight

On that Cm6starry, starry night

You Gtook your life, asF7 lovers oftenE7 do

But IAm7 could have told you, Vincent

This Cworld was never meant for one

As D7beautiful as Gyou

Verse 3

Starry, starry Gnight

Portraits hung in Amempty halls

Frameless heads on Cnameless walls

With eD7yes that watch the world and can’t fGorget

Like the strangers that you’ve met

The ragged men inAm ragged clothes

The silver thorn; a Cbloody rose

Lie D7crushed and broken on the virgin Gsnow

Chorus

Now I think I Amknow

D7   What you tried toG say to me Em

And how you suffered for yourAm7 sanity

D7And how you tried to set them Emfree

They would not listen, they’re not A7listening still Am7

PeD7rhaps they never Gwill