Vincent original guitar chords by
Don Mclean

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Key: G major

Verse 1

G

Gsus4

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Asus2

Paint your palette blue and gray

Am

Asus2

C

Cmaj7

Look out on a summer's day

D7

G

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Verse 2

G

Gsus4

G

Shadows on the hills

Am

Asus2

Sketch the trees and the daffodils

Am

Asus2

C

Cmaj7

Catch the breeze and the winter chills

D7

G

C/G

G

In colors on the snowy, linen land

Chorus 1
Am7 Am7 
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Now, I understand
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what you tried to say to     me
Em Em 
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And how you suffered for your  sanity
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Em Em 
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And how you tried to set them free
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They would not listen, they did not know how
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G G 
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Perhaps they'll listen now

Verse 3

G

Gsus4

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Asus2

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

Am

Asus2

C

Cmaj7

Swirling clouds in violet haze

D7

G

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Verse 4

G

Gsus4

G

Colors changing hue

Am

Asus2

Morning fields of amber grain

Am

Asus2

C

Cmaj7

Weathered faces lined in pain

D7

G

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Chorus 2
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Now, I understand
G G 
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G/F# G/F# 
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what you tried to say to     me
Em Em 
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And how you suffered for your  sanity
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Em Em 
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And how you tried to set them free
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They would not listen, they did not know how
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Perhaps they'll listen now

Bridge 1
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For they could not love  you
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But still your love was true
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And when no hope  was left inside
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On that starry, starry, night
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You took your life as lovers often do
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But I     could have told you, Vincent
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This world was never meant    for one
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As  beautiful as you

Verse 5
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Starry, starry night
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Portraits hung in  empty halls
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Frameless heads on nameless walls
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With eyes that watch the world
G G 
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and can't forget

Verse 6

G

Gsus4

Like the strangers that you've met

G

Am

Asus2

The ragged men in ragged clothes

Am

Asus2

C

Cmaj7

The silver thorn of bloody rose

D7

G

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Chorus 3
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Now, I think I know
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what you tried to say to     me
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And how you suffered for your  sanity
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And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen,
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they're not listening still
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Perhaps they never will
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