Vincent Chords by Don McLean

[Start]

[Verse]
G                  
Starry starry night
Am                              
Paint your palette blue and grey
     C                    
Look out on a summer's day
Cmaj7 D                  G                  
With  eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G                   
Shadows on the hills
           Am                     
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
C                               Cmaj7 
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
D         D7                 G   
In colors on the snowy linen land
      Am        
Now I understand
D                   G        
■ What you tried to say to me
    Em                   Am7        
And how you suffered for your sanity
D                          Em       
■ And how you tried to set them free
                               Am       A7  Am
They would not listen they did not know how ■ 
Dsus4                  G  
Perhaps they'll listen now
G                  
Starry starry night
                     Am            
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
                   Cmaj7      
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D          D7                G         
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
       G           
Colors changing hue
Am                           
Morning fields of amber grain
C                        Cmaj7
Weathered faces lined in pain 
D                                       G   
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
      Am        
Now I understand
D                G           
■ What you tried to say to me
Em                      Am7            
■  And how you suffered for your sanity
D                               Em  
■ And how you tried to set them free
               Em7         Am              
They would not listen they did not know how


[Chorus]
Am7 Dsus4   D              G  
■   Perhaps they'll listen now
                        Am 
For they could not love you
D7                         G   
■  But still your love was true
Em          Am                       
■  And when no hope was left in sight


[Verse]
        C                  
On that starry starry night
G                  F         E7      
You took your life as lovers often do
Am                        C      
But I could have told you Vincent
               Cmaj7              
This world was never meant for one
D  Dsus4     G     
As beautiful as you
              G    
Starry starry night
          Am                 
Portraits hung in empty halls
          C                      
Frameless heads on nameless walls
D                              G               
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
         C              G          C
Like the strangers that you've met ■
G          Am                   
The ragged men in ragged clothes
         C                  
A silver thorn a bloody rose
D                                    G   
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
            Am D   
Now I think I  know


[Chorus]
         G               Em
What you tried to say to me
                     Am              D
And how you suffered for your sanity ■
                              Em  
And how you tried to set them free
                                  Am             
They would not listen they're not listening still


[Outro]
D            G         
Perhaps they never will


[End]