G Am
Starry Starry night. Paint your palette blue and grey
C D7 G
Look out on a summers day, with eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G Am
Shadows on the hills. Sketch the tress and the daffodils
C D7 G
Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land
Chorus:
Am D7 G Em
Now I understand what you tried to say to me
Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
A7 D7 G
They would not listen the did not know how perhaps they 'll listen now
G Am
Starry starry night flamings flowers that brightly blaze
C D7 G
Swirling cluds in violet haze reflect in Vincents eyes of china blue
G Am
Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain
C D7 G
Weathered faces lined in pain, are soothed beneath the artists 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 you sanity How you tried to set them free
A7 D7 G
They would not listen the did not know how perhaps they 'll listen now
Am D7 G Em
For they could not love you but still your love was true
Am Cm
And when no hope was left in sight on that starry starry night
G F7 E7 Am7
You took you life as lovers often do But I could of told you Vincent
C D7 G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
G Am
Starry starry night. Portraits hung in empty halls
C D7
Frame-less heads on nameless walls, with eyes that watch the world
G
and cant forget
G Am
Like the strangers that you've met, the ragged men in ragged clothes
C D7 G
A silver thorn a bloody rose - lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Chorus:
Am D7 G Em
Now I think I know what you tried to say to me
Am7 D7 Em
How you suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free
A7 D7 G
They would not listen they're not listening still perhaps they never will
-- Lyrics and Music by Don McLean
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