Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)
by Don McLean · tab for chromatic harmonica
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Star-ry, star-ry night
paint your pal-ette blue and grey
look out on a sum-mer's day
with eyes that know the
dark-ness in my soul.
Shad-ows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daf-fo-dils
catch the breeze and the win-ter chills
in col-ors on the snow-y lin-en land.
Now I un-der-stand
what you tried to say to me
how you suf-fered for your san-i-ty
how you tried to set them free.
They would not lis-ten
they did not know how
per-haps they'll lis-ten now.
Star-ry, star-ry night
flam-ing flow'rs that bright-ly blaze
swirl-ing clouds in vio-let haze
re-flect in Vin-cent's eyes of Chi-na blue.
Col-ors chang-ing hue
Morn-ing fields of am-ber grain
weath-ered fac-es lined in pain
are soothed be-neath the
art-ist's lov-ing hand.
Now I un-der-stand
what you tried to say to me
how you suf-fered for your san-i-ty
how you tried to set them free.
They would not lis-ten
they did not know how
per-haps they'll lis-ten now.
For they could not love you
but still your love was true
and when no hope was left in sight
on that star-ry, star-ry night.
You took your life
as lov-ers of-ten do;
But I could have told you Vin-cent
this world was nev-er meant for one
as beau-ti-ful as you.