Vincent Chords by Don McLean
- Key: G
- BPM: 71
- Capo: no capo
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VINCENT CHORDS
[Start] [Intro] G Gsus4 G Starry starry night ■ ■ Am Paint your palette blue and gray [Verse] C Look out on a summer's day D G With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Gsus4 G Shadows on the hills ■ Am Sketch the trees and the daffodils C Catch the breeze and the winter chills D G C G In colors on the snowy linen land ■ ■ Am Am7 Now I understand ■ D G Em ■ What you tried to say to me ■ Am How you suffered for your sanity D Em7 And ■ how you tried to set them free A7 They would not listen they did not know how Am7 Dsus4 G Gmaj7 ■ Perhaps they'll listen now G ■ Starry starry night Am7 Am Flaming flowers that brightly blaze ■ C Swirling clouds in violet haze D G Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue G Colors changing hue Am Morning fields of amber grain C Weathered faces lined in pain D G Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Am7 D Now I understand ■ [Chorus] G Gmaj7 What you tried to say to me Em Am7 D ■ And how you suffered for your sanity ■ Em How you tried to set them free Am Am7 They would not listen they did not know how ■ D G Perhaps they'll listen now Am7 For they could not love you D Dsus4 G D Gmaj7 ■ Still your love was true ■ ■ [Verse] G Am ■ And when no hope was left in sight C On that starry starry night F E7 You took your life as lovers often do Am But I could have told you Vincent C Cmaj7 D Dsus4 D G ■ This world was never meant for one as beautiful ■ as you Gsus4 G Starry starry night ■ ■ Am Portraits hung in empty halls C Cmaj7 Frameless heads on nameless walls C G With eyes that watch the world and can't forget G Like the strangers that you've met Am7 Am The ragged men in ragged clothes [Chorus] C The silver thorn of bloody rose D G Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Am7 Am Am7 D Now I think I know ■ ■ ■ G D G Em What you tried to say to me ■ Am And how you suffered for your sanity D Em ■ And how you tried to set them free Em7 Am Am7 They would not listen they're not listening stillfive ■ [Outro] D G Perhaps they never will