Vincent

Artist: Don Mclean (English)
User: ronlindeman
Duration: 130 seconds
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Written by Don McLean
From the album:
Don McLean "American Pie" (1971)

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                G 
Starry, starry night
                    Am 
Paint your palette blue and gray
                C     
Look out on a summer's day
      D7                                G 
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

                                                Am 
Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and the daffodils
                           C 
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
     D7                       G    C   G 
In colors on the snowy linen land

 G           Am 
Now I understand
                   G      Em 
What you tried to say to me
                               Am7 
And how you suffered for your sanity
 D7                             Em 
And how you tried to set them free
                             A7           Am7 
They would not listen, they did not know how
     D7                 G 
Perhaps they'll listen now

                 G 
Starry, starry night
                       Am 
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
                     C 
Swirling clouds in violet haze
     D7                             G 
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
                                        Am 
Colors changing hue, Morning fields of amber grain
                 C       
Weathered faces lined in pain
      D7                                  G     C   G 
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

 G           Am 
Now I understand
                    G     Em 
What you tried to say to me
                               Am7 
And how you suffered for your sanity
 D7                             Em 
And how you tried to set them free
                             A7           Am7 
They would not listen, they did not know how
    D7                  G 
Perhaps they'll listen now

 G                  Am7 
For they could not love you
 D7                      G     Em 
But still your love was true
             Am7                              Cm)  
And when no hope was left in sight, On that starry, starry night
 G                       F7          E7 
You took your life, as lovers often do
       Am7 
But I could've told you Vincent
       C                                D7 
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

                G                        Am 
Starry, starry night, Portraits hung in empty halls
                     C                     
Frame-less heads on nameless walls 
      D7                                     G 
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
                                                       Am        
Like the strangers that you've met, The ragged men in ragged clothes
                      C                D7                              G    C   G 
The silver thorn of bloody rose, Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

 G             Am 
Now I think I know
                   G      Em 
What you tried to say to me
                               Am7 
And how you suffered for your sanity
 D7                            Em 
And how you tried to set them free
                                    A7        Am7 
They would not listen, they're not listening still
    D7              G 
Perhaps they never will

Written by Don McLean
From the album:
Don McLean "American Pie" (1971)

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