Vincent - Don McLean

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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]
              
Starry, starry

 
 night
              
Paint your pal

     
let blue and g

rey
              
Look out on a 

             
summer's day w

            
ith eyes that 

              
know the darkn

         
ess in my soul
              
Shadows on the

              
 hills, sketch

              
 the trees and

   
 the daffodils
              
Catch the bree

             
ze and the win

              
ter chills, in

            
 colours on th

              
e snowy linen 

      
land

[Chorus]
              
And now I unde

          
rstand    what

              
 you tried to 

        
say to me
              
How you suffer

           
ed for your sa

            
nity     How y

              
ou tried to se

      
t them free
              
They would not

              
 listen, they 

            
did not know h

         
ow   perhaps t

       
hey listen now

[Verse 2]
              
Starry, starry

 
 night
              
Flaming flower

  
s that brightl

y blaze
              
Swirling cloud

             
s in violet ha

            
ze reflect in 

              
Vincent's eyes

         
 of china blue
              
Colors changin

              
g hue, morning

          
 fields of amb

er grain
              
Weathered face

             
s lined in pai

            
n, are soothed

              
 beneath the a

              
rtist's loving

 
 hand

[Chorus]
              
And now I unde

          
rstand    what

              
 you tried to 

        
say to me
              
How you suffer

           
ed for your sa

            
nity     How y

              
ou tried to se

      
t them free
              
They would not

              
 listen, they 

            
did not know h

         
ow   perhaps t

       
hey listen now

[Extended Chorus]
             
For they could

          
 not love you,

             
  but still yo

             
ur love was tr

   
ue
            
And when no ho

             
pe was left in

              
 sight on that

 
 starry, starr

y night
             
You took your 

            
life as lovers

            
 often do,  Bu

   
t I could have

 told you Vinc

ent
             
This world was

              
 never meant f

            
or one as beau

         
tiful as you

[Verse 3]
              
Starry, starry

 
 night
              
Portraits hung

    
 in empty hall

s
              
Frameless head

             
s on nameless 

             
walls, with ey

             
es that watch 

              
the world and 

       
can't forget
              
Like the stran

              
gers that you'

              
ve met, the ra

           
gged men in ra

gged clothes
              
The silver tho

             
rn, the bloody

            
 rose, lie cru

              
shed and broke

              
n on the virgi

  
n snow

[Final Chorus]
              
And now I thin

          
k I know      

              
what you tried

             
 to say to me
              
How you suffer

           
ed for your sa

            
nity    How yo

              
u tried to set

      
 them free
              
They would not

              
 listen, they'

            
re not  listen

           
ing still     

            
perhaps they n

     
ever will

[Optional Outro]