Vincent

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Paint your palette blue and gray

C

Look out on a summer's day

D7 G

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

G

Shadows on the hills

Am

Sketch the trees and the daffodils

C

Catch the breeze and the winter chills

D7 G

In colors on the snowy linen land

Am D7

Now I under- stand

G Em

What you tried to say to me

Am7

How you suffered for your sanity

D7 E7

How you tried to set them free

Am7

They did not listen, They did not know how

D7 G

Perhaps they'll listen now

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

C

Swirling clouds in violet haze

D7 G

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

G

Colors changing hue

Am

Morning fields of amber grain

C

Weathered faces lined in pain

D7 G

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Am D7

Now I under- stand

G Em

What you tried to say to me

Am7

How you suffered for your sanity

D7 E7

How you tried to set them free

Am7

They did not listen, They did not know how

D7 G

Perhaps they'll listen now

Am7

For they could not love you

D7 G

But still your love was true

Em A7

And when no hope was left insight

C

On that starry, starry night

G E7

You took your life as lovers often do

Am7

But I could have told you Vincent

C D7 G

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

G

Starry, starry night

Am

Portraits hung in empty halls

C

Frame less heads on nameless walls

D7 G

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

G

Like the strangers that you've met

Am

The ragged men in ragged clothes

C

The silver thorn of bloody rose

D7 G

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Am D7

Now I think I know

G Em

What you tried to say to me

Am7

How you suffered for your sanity

D7 E7

How you tried to set them free

Am7

They did not listen they're not listening still

D7 G

Perhaps they never will

Vi