Julio Iglesias - Vincent, (Starry Starry Night) 
1990 - Julio Iglesias covered this song on his album Starry Night and it was later included 
on the compilation album My Life: The Greatest Hits (1998)

Capo III

[Verse 1] 
              
Starry starry 

             
night, paint y

            
our palette bl

ue and gray,
              
look out on a 


summer's day
             
with eyes that

              
 know the dark

           
ness in my sou

l.
 
[Verse 2] 
              
Shadows on the

             
 hills, sketch

              
 the trees and

     
 the daffodils

,
              
catch the bree

           
ze and the win

ter chills
             
in colors on t

              
he snowy linen

 
 land.  

[Chorus]
            
Now I understa

             
nd   what you 

         
tried to say t

o me,
              
how you suffer

             
ed for your sa

       
nity,
              
how you tried 

            
to set them fr

ee.  
              
They would not

              
 listen they d

            
id not know ho

   
w.
              
perhaps they'l

         
l listen now .

 
 
[Verse 3] 
              
Starry starry 

             
night, flaming

              
 flowers that 


brightly blaze

,
              
swirling cloud

     
s in violet ha

ze
             
reflect in Vin

              
cent's eyes of

       
 china blue.

[Verse 4]
              
Colors changin

             
g hue, morning

           
 fields of amb

er grain,
              
weathered face

  
s lined in pai

n
             
are soothed be

              
neath the arti

            
st's loving ha

nd. 
 
[Chorus]
            
Now I understa

             
nd   what you 

         
tried to say t

o me,
              
how you suffer

             
ed for your sa

       
nity,
              
how you tried 

            
to set them fr

ee.  
              
They would not

              
 listen they d

            
id not know ho

   
w.
              
perhaps they'l

         
l listen now. 

[Bridge]
              
For they could

            
 not love you,

             
    but still 

              
your love was 

     
true,
             
and when no ho

              
pe was left in

             
side on that s

#
tarry starry n

ight  
              
you took your 

             
life as lovers

      
 often do,
              
but I could ha

   
ve told you Vi

ncent,
             
this world was

              
 never meant f

            
or one as beau

             
tiful as you. 

 
 

[Verse 5]
              
Starry starry 

             
night, portrai

           
ts hung in emp

ty halls,
              
frameless head

     
s on nameless 

walls
             
with eyes that

              
 watch the wor

             
ld and can't f

orget.

[Verse 6]
              
Like the stran

              
gers that you'

             
ve met, the ra

            
gged men in ra

gged clothes,
              
the silver tho

      
rn of bloody r

ose
             
lie crushed an

              
d broken on th

         
e virgin snow.

  
 
[Outro]
              
Now I think I 

           
know    what y

            
ou tried to sa

y to me,
              
how you suffer

            
ed for your sa

             
nity,   how yo

              
u tried to set

      
 them free.
              
They did not l

              
isten, they're

              
 not listening

            
 still, perhap

            
s they never w

ill.