Vincent Chords by Don McLean

[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