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Vincent easy guitar chords by
Don Mclean
Don Mclean

1971Folk
4.9 (94)
Verse 1
G
C
G

Starry, starry night
Am

Paint your palette blue and gray
C

Look out on a summer's day
D
G

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Verse 2
G
C
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
Chorus 1
Am
D

Now, I understand
G
Bm

what you tried to say to me
Em
Am

And how you suffered for your sanity
D
Em

And how you tried to set them free
A

They would not listen, they did not know how
Am
D
G

Perhaps they'll listen now
Verse 3
G
C
G

Starry, starry night
Am

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
C

Swirling clouds in violet haze
D
G

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Verse 4
G
C
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
Chorus 2
Am
D

Now, I understand
G
Bm

what you tried to say to me
Em
Am

And how you suffered for your sanity
D
Em

And how you tried to set them free
A

They would not listen, they did not know how
Am
D
G

Perhaps they'll listen now
Bridge 1
Am

For they could not love you
D
G
Bm

But still your love was true
Em
Am

And when no hope was left inside
Cm

On that starry, starry, night
G
F
E

You took your life as lovers often do
Am

But I could have told you, Vincent
C
C

This world was never meant for one
D
G

As beautiful as you
Verse 5
G
C
G

Starry, starry night
Am

Portraits hung in empty halls
C

Frameless heads on nameless walls
D

With eyes that watch the world
G

and can't forget
Verse 6
G
C

Like the strangers that you've met
G
Am

The ragged men in ragged clothes
C

The silver thorn of bloody rose
D
G

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Chorus 3
Am
D

Now, I think I know
G
Bm

what you tried to say to me
Em
Am

And how you suffered for your sanity
D
Em

And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen,
A

they're not listening still
Am
D
G

Perhaps they never will
G
G

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Chords
  • G

  • C

  • Am

  • D

  • Bm

    2
  • Em

  • A

  • Cm

    3
  • F

  • E

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Transpose: 0

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