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Vincent by Don McLean - Guitar Chords

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            Hey Guys, I just fixed up an existing tab, purely because the second and third verses did not have the 
chords, and when playing live (if you have not played it before) it's good to have the chords throughout
the tab!
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[Verse 1]
               G
Starry, starry night
                   Am
Paint your pallet blue and grey
              C                 D7                               G
Look out on a summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
                                             Am
Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils
                         C                 D7                         G   C   G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colours on the snowy linen land

[Chorus]
              Am     D7                   G        Em
And now I understand    what you tried to say to me
                         Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free
                                A7          Am7   D7           G
They would not listen, they did not know how   perhaps they listen now

[Verse 2]
               G
Starry, starry night
                Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
                  C            D7                                G
Swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
                                      Am
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
               C                   D7                                  G
Weathered faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

[Chorus]
              Am     D7                   G        Em
And now I understand    what you tried to say to me
                         Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity     How you tried to set them free
                                A7          Am7   D7           G
They would not listen, they did not know how   perhaps they listen now

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

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

[Final Chorus]
                  Am     D7                  G          Em
And now I think I know      what you tried to say to me
                         Am7     D7                           Em
How you suffered for your sanity    How you tried to set them free
                                   A7               Am7   D7               G
They would not listen, they're not  listening still     perhaps they never will

[Optional Outro]
G   Am   C D7   G
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