Vincent Don McLean
** This was submitted, just to correct some lyrical errors **
Vincent
By Don Mclean
Verse 1
[G]Starry, starry night, paint your palette
Blue and grey, look ou[Am]t on a summer's day, [C]
[D]With eyes that know the dar[D]kness in my soul[G]
[G]Shadows on the hills[G],
[C]Sketch the trees and daffo[Am]dils
C[C]atch the breeze and the [Am]winter chills
[D]In colours on th[D]e snowy linen[G] land
[G]And now I understand wha[Am]t you tried to
[G]Say to me, how you suffe[Am]red for your sanity
How you[C] tried to set them free, [G]
[C]They would not listen, they did not know h[Am]ow
[D]Perhaps they'll listen n[G]ow
Verse 2
[G]Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that
Brightly blaze,[Am] swirling clouds in violet haze[C]
[D]Reflect in Vincent?s eye[D]s of China Blue[G]
[G]Colours changing hue,[G]
[C]Morning fields of amber gr[Am]ain
[C]Weathered faces lined wi[Am]th pain
[D]Are soothed beneath the artist[D]s loving [G]hand
[G]And now I understan[Am]d what you tried to
[G]Say to me, how you s[Am]uffered for your sanity
[C]How you tried to set them [G]free,
[C]They would not listen, they did no[Am]t know how,
[D]Perhaps they'll listen n[G]ow
Verse 3
Fo[C]r they could not love you,
But still[C] your love was [G]true
[C]And when no hope was left in sight
On that starry, starry night
You took[G] your life as lovers often do
[Am]But I could have told you, Vincent, this worl[C]d was
Never meant for one as be[D]autiful as y[G]ou
Verse 4
[G]Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
[Am]Frameless heads [Am]on nameless wal[C]ls
[D]With eyes that watch the[D] world and can?t f[G]orget
[G]Like the strangers that you?ve m[G]et
[C]The ragged men in ragged c[Am]lothes
T[C]he silver thorn, a bloo[Am]dy rose
[D]Lie crushed and broken on[D] the virgin [G]snow
[G]Now I think I know, what yo[Am]u tried to[Am]
[G]Say to me, and how you s[Am]uffered for your [Am]sanity
And [C]how you tried to set[G] them free,
[C]They would not listen; they?re not listening sti[Am]ll,
[D]Perhaps the never wil[G]l?
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