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Vincent by Don McLean - Guitar Chords

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            [Verse 1]
G               G C G
Starry, starry  night, 
G
paint your palette       
Am
Blue and grey, 
Am            C        Cmaj7
Look out on a summer's day, 
     D                   D7              G
with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G              G C G
Shadows on the hills, 
G                        Am
Sketch the trees and the daffodills
Am                       C           Cmaj7
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in 
D7                        G C G
colors on the snowy linen land           


[Chorus]
G              Am    D
Now I under stand 
D7                G   D/F#  Em
what you tried to say to me
Em                            Am     
and how you suffered for your sanity
D7                         Em
How you tried to set them free, 
Em                              A7           C
they would not listen, they did not know how,
D                      G
Perhaps they'll listen now


[Verse 2]
G               G C G                
Starry, starry  night, 
G
flaming flowers that     
Am              Am                 C
Brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze
D                                  G
Reflecting Vincent’s eyes of China Blue
G               G C G
Colors changing hue, 
G                 Am
Morning fields of amber grain
Am              C       
Weathered faces lined in pain 
D                       D7             G
Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand


[Chorus]
G               Am    D7
And now I understand 
D                 G D/F# Em
what you tried to say to me
Em                        Am7    D7
how you suffered for your sanity
D7                        Em       
How you tried to set them free, 
Em                              A7             C
they would not listen, they did not know how,
   D7                  G
Perhaps they'll listen now


[Bridge]
G                  Am        D7
For they could not love you,
D7                      G D/F# Em
but still your love was true
Em          Am
And when no hope was left in sight 
        Cm
On that starry, starry night, you
G                 F            E7
took your life as lovers often do
    Am                              C
But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was 
C                      D7           G  C  G
Never meant for one as beautiful as you


[Verse 3]
G               G  C  G    
Starry, starry  night, 
G                 Am
portraits hung in empty halls
Am                C
framless heads on nameless walls
D              D7                        G
with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget
G
Like the strangers that you’ve met
G                 Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes 
Am                C
A silver thorn, a bloody rose, lie
D                  D7            G
Crushed and broken on the virgin snow

G                 Am    D7
And now I think I know,  
D7                G  D/F# Em
what you tried to say to me,  
Em                        Am      D7
how you suffered for your sanity
D7                        Em
How you tried to set them free, 
Em                                 A7               C
They would not listen, they’re not listening still,
   D             G
Perhaps the never....will
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