Don McLean - Vincent

Verse1 :
                G                        Am
Starry, starry night, paint your pallet blue and grey
               C
Look out on a summers day,
      D7                                G
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
                G                              Am
Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils
                          C
And catch the breeze and winter chills
    D7                        G   C  G
In colors on the snowy linen land

Chorus:
            Am     D7              G      Em
Now I understand, what you tried to say to me
                           Am7
How you suffered for your sanity
         D7                Em
How you tried to set them free
                                 A7          Am7
They would not listen, they did not know how
    D7               G
Perhaps they'll listen now

Verse2 :
                G                            Am
Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze
     C
Swirling colors of violet haze
   D7                              G
Reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue
                G                              Am
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
        C
Weathered faces lined in pain
      D7                                G   C  G
Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand

Chorus:

Bridge1 : 
                    Am7           D7                  G
For they could not love you, but still your love was true
 Em          Am7                            Cm6
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry, starry night
     G                 F7           E7
You took your life as lovers often do
   Am7
I could have told you Vincent,
      C                                D7           G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

Verse3 :
                G                        Am
Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls
                       C
Frameless heads on nameless walls
      D7                                  G
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
                              G                        Am
Like the stranger that you've met, the ragged man in ragged clothes
                     C
The silver thorn of bloody rose
       D7                              G   C  G
Lies crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Bridge2 : 
              Am     D7              G     Em
Now I think I know, what you try to say to me
                           Am7
How you suffered for your sanity
         D7                Em
How you tried to set them free
                                    A7        Am7
They would not listen, they're not listening still
  D7                G
Perhaps they never will