| Song Name: | Vincent (Starry Night) (Chrom C) | By: | Don McLean |
| Posted By: | marion | Difficulty: | Intermediate |
| Key: | C | Genre: | Rock |
| Harp Type: | Chromatic | ||
| Created: | 2019-05-04 21:20:19 | Modified: | 2019-05-04 21:20:19 |
| Song: | (Guitar Plays 1st Line)
-5 6 7 -7 -8__ Starry starry night -8 -7 7 6 -7 -8 6__ Paint your palette blue and gray -8 -7 7 6 -7 -8 6__ Look out on a summer's day -6* 7 -6* 6 -5 6 -6* 7 -7 -8__ In colors on the snowy linen land -5 6 7 -7 -8 Shadows on the hills -8 -7 7 6 -7 -8 6 Sketch the trees and the daffodils -8 -7 7 6 -7 -8 6 Catch the breeze and the winter chills -6* 7 -6* 6 -5 6 -6* 7 -7 7__ With eyes that know the darkness in my soul (Short Pause 1st Time) 7 -7 -8 7 -7__ Now I understand -7 -8 9 -9 -8 -8 -8__ What you tried to say to me -8 9 -8 -7 7 6 -8 -7 -7__ How you suffered for your sanity -7 -7 -7 -8 9 -7 -8 How you tried to set them free -8 -8 9 -8 -7 7 6 -7 -8 6__ They would not listen they did not know how -5 -6* 7 -7 -6* 7 (Repeat Line Slow on Ending) Perhaps they'll listen now (Repeat) 3 3 -3 -4 -4 -3__ For they could not love you -1 -3 -3 -4 5 -5__ But still your love was true -4 5 -5 6 -5 -5 5 5 -4 And when no hope was left inside -4 5 -5* -5 -5 5 -5 On that starry starry night 6 -5 5 5 -4 -4 3 -3 -4 -4__ You took your life as lovers often do -4 -4 5 -4 -4 -3 -3 -4 But I could have told you Vincent -4 5 -4 -4 -3 -3 3 -2* 3 -4 -3 3 -2* 3__ This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you (Repeat 1st Three Verses) Starry starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand Now I understand What you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now Starry starry night Portraits hung in empty halls Frameless heads on nameless walls With eyes that watch the world and can't forget Like the strangers that you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes The silver thorn of bloody rose Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow Now I think I know What you tried to say to me How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free They did not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will This plays with karaoke music, same Artist, run time 4:07. |
