Vincent - Don Mc Lean

Verse 1
G
am
Starry, starry night paint your pallete blue and grey
C
D
G
Look out on a summers day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
n.c.
G
am
Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the daffodils
C
D
G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land
Chorus
am
D
G/G, G/F#, G/E
And now I under-stand... What you tried to say to me
am7
D
em
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free
am7
D
G
They would not listen, they did not know how ...Perhaps they 'll listen now
Verse 2
G
am
Starry, starry nite flamings flowr's that brightly blaze
C
D
G
Swirling clouds in violet haze re-flect in Vincents eyes of china blue
n.c.
G
am
Colors changing hue morning fields of amber grain
C
D
G
Weatherd faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand
Chorus
Bridge
G
am
D
G/G, G/F#, G/E
For they could not love you but still your love was true
am
cm
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night
G
F
E7
am
You took you life as lovers often do But I could have told you, Vincent
C
D
G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Vincent p.2

Verse 3
G
am
Starry, starry night portraits hung in empty halls
C
D
G
Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and cant for-get
n.c.
G
am
Like the strangers that youve met the ragged men in ragged clothes
C
D
G
The silver thorn, the bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

(Chorusvariation in last line)

am
D
G/G, G/F#, *G/E (em7)
And now I under-stand... What you tried to say to me
*(em7)
am7
D
em
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free
n.c.
am7
D
G
They would not listen, theyre not listening still ...Per-haps they 'll listen now

*G/E (em7): A G major chord with an E note in the bass has the same notes in it as an em7