This was requested in the newsletter, you don't have a Don McLean section, so I guess you could add one, or this was also recorded by Barbara Fairchild, so I guess you could put it there. Keep the music alive! Dan Mooney Vincent By Don McLean G Am Starry starry night, paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a C D7 G summer's day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul G Am Shadows on the hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils C D7 Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy G CG linen land Am D7 G Em Now I understand what you tried to say to me How you suffered Am7 D7 Em for you sanity How you tried to set themfree They would not A7 Am7 D7 G listen they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now G Am Starry starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling C D7 G clouds in violet haze reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue G Am Colors changing hue, morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces C D7 G C lined in pain are soothed 'neath the artist's loving hand G Chorus G Am7 D7 G For they could not love you, but still your love was true FE Am7 Cm And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry G F7 E7 starry night You took your life as lovers often do, But I Am7 C could have told you, Vincent, This world was never meant for one as D7 beautiful as you G Am Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls Frameless heads C D7 G on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can't forget. G Am Like the stranger that you've met, the ragged man in ragged clothes C D7 The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie crushed and broken on the virgin G CG snow Am D7 G Em Now I think I know what you tried to say to me How you Am7 D7 Em suffered for you sanity How you tried to set them free They A7 Am7 D7 would not listen they're not listening still Perhaps they never G will