Artist: | Don Mclean (English) |
User: | Dennis Laguio |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
Chord names: | Not defined |
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Comment: | - |
Verse 1
G
Starry, starry night,
Gsus4 G Am
paint your palette blue and grey
C
Look out on a summer's day,
D G
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G Gsus4
Shadows on the hills,
G Am
Sketch the trees and daffodils
C
Catch the breeze and winter chills,
D G C G
in colors on the snowy linen land
[Chorus]
Am D7
And now I understand
G G/F# Em
what you tried to say to me,
Am
How you suffered for your sanity,
D Em pause
how you tried to set them free,
A
They would not listen, they did not know how,
Am D G C G
perhaps they'll listen now
[Verse 2]
G Gsus4
Starry, starry night,
G Am
flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
C
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D G
reflecting Vincent's eyes of china blue
G Gsus4
Colors changing hue,
G Am
Morning fields of amber grain
C
Weathered faces lined in pain
D G C G
are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
[Chorus]
Am D7
And now I understand
G G/F# Em
what you tried to say to me,
Am
How you suffered for your sanity,
D Em pause
how you tried to set them free,
A
They would not listen, they did not know how,
Am D G C G
perhaps they'll listen now
[Bridge]
Am D7
For they could not love you,
G G/F# Em
but still your love was true
Am pause
And when no hope was left in sight on that
Cm
starry, starry night,
G F E7
You took your life as lovers often do
Am C
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was
D G C G
Never meant for one as beautiful as you
[Verse 3]
G Gsus4
Starry, starry night,
G Am
portraits hung in empty halls,
C
Frameless heads on nameless walls
D G
with eyes that watch the world and can't forget
G Gsus4 G
Like the strangers that you've met
Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes
C
The silver thorn of bloody rose,
D G C G
lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
[Chorus]
Am
And now I think I know
D G G/F# Em
what you tried to say to me,
Am
How you suffered for your sanity,
D Em pause
how you tried to set them free,
A
They would not listen, they're not listening still,
Am D G
perhaps they never will