Vincent - Don McLean
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Tuning: Standard, E A D G B E
Notation symbols:
s : slide
h : hammer on
p : pull off
Vincent - Don McLean
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[Verse 1]
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Starry, starr
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y night;
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Paint
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your palette
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blue and gray;
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Look out on
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a summer's day
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ness in my soul...
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Shadows on the
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hills;
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the trees and
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Catch the bree
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ze and the win
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ter chills; In
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colors on the
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and.
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[Chorus]
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Now I understa
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What you tr
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ied to say, to
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ou suffered for your
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sanity;
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And how
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you tried to
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set them free: They would not listen; they did
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Starry, starry
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night;
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Vincent's eyes of china blue
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Colors chang
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ing hue;
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ed beneath the
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ng hand.
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Now I understa
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ou suffered for your
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sanity;
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you tried to
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set them free: They would not listen; they did
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not know how
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ten now.
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For they could
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But still, yo
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u, Vincent:
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[Verse 3]
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Starry, star
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ry night; Port
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angers that yo
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shed and broke
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n snow.
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Now I think
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ou suffered for your
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sanity;
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set them free: They would not listen; they're not
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listening stil
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Transcribed by:
Lee Francis Wilhelmsen
francis@GRIBB.hsr.no
francis@hsr.no
19(C)94
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Dutch Painter