Vincent (Starry Starry Night)
Don Mclean (1972)
:Am9: 
Any fingerpicking pattern in 4/4 Lick for beginning verses
Try:
|-A-----A-A-----A-| |---------------0-|
|---M-------M-----| |-----------0-3---|
|-----I-------I---| |---------2-------|
|-T-------T-------| |-----------------|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Starry, starry | [G] night [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... paint your palette | [Am] blue and grey [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Look out on a | [C] summer's day [Cmaj7] .. with | [D7] eyes that know the darkness in my | [G] soul
Shadows on the | [G] hills [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... Sketch the trees and | [Am] daffodils [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Catch the breeze and | [C] winter chills [Cmaj7] .. in | [D7] colors on the snowy linen | [G] land [Gsus4] | [G]
Chorus
And now I under- | [Am] stand ... | [D7] .. what you tried to | [G] say to [Gmaj7] me |
| [Em] . and how you suffered for your | [Am] sanity | [D7] .. and you tried to set them | [Em!] free
They would not listen, they did | [A] not know how | [Am] ... per- [D7] haps they'll listen | [G] now [Gsus4] | [G]
Starry, starry | [G] night [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... flaming flowers that | [Am] brightly blaze [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Swirling clouds in | [C] violet [Cmaj7] haze, re- | [D7] flecting Vincent's eyes of china | [G] blue
Colors changing | [G] hue [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... Morning fields of | [Am] amber grain [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Weathered faces | [C] lined in [Cmaj7] pain, are | [D7] soothed beneath the artist's loving | [G] hand
Chorus
Now I under- | [Am] stand ... | [D7] .. what you tried to | [G] say to [Gmaj7] me |
| [Em] . and how you suffered for your | [Am] sanity | [D7] .. and you tried to set them | [Em!] free
They would not listen, they did | [A] not know how | [Am] ... per- [D7] haps they'll listen | [G] now
Bridge
For they could not | [Am] love you .... | [D] . but still your love was | [G] true [Gmaj7] |
| [Em] ... And when no | [Am!] hope was left in sight on that | [Cm!] starry, starry night,
You | [G] took your life as [G7] lovers often | [E7!] do
But I | [Am] could have told you, Vincent, this | [C] world was never meant for one as
| [D] beautiful as... | [G] you [Gsus4] | [G]
Starry, starry | [G] night [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... portraits hung in | [Am] empty halls [Am9] |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Frameless heads on | [C] nameless [Cmaj7] walls, with | [D7] eyes that watch the world and can't for- | [G] get
Like the strangers that you've | [G] met [Gsus4] ... The | [G] ragged men in | [Am] ragged [Am9] clothes |
| [Am] ... The [Am9] silver thorn of | [C] bloody [Cmaj7] rose, lie | [D7!] crushed and broken on the virgin | [G] snow
Chorus
And now I think I | [Am] know [Am9] .... | [D7] . what you tried to | [G] say to [Gmaj7] me |
| [Em] . How you suffered for your | [Am] sanity | [D7] . how you tried to set them | [Em!] free
They would not listen, they're not | [A] listening still | [Am] ... per- [D7] haps they never | [G] will [Gsus4] | [G!]
#Play along with Don Mclean in this key.
#Last Updated 5/30/22 JJ
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Don Mclean (1972)
:Am9: Any fingerpicking pattern in 4/4 Lick for beginning verses
Try:
|-A-----A-A-----A-| |---------------0-|
|---M-------M-----| |-----------0-3---|
|-----I-------I---| |---------2-------|
|-T-------T-------| |-----------------|
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Starry, starry | [G] night [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... paint your palette | [Am] blue and grey [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Look out on a | [C] summer's day [Cmaj7] .. with | [D7] eyes that know the darkness in my | [G] soul
Shadows on the | [G] hills [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... Sketch the trees and | [Am] daffodils [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Catch the breeze and | [C] winter chills [Cmaj7] .. in | [D7] colors on the snowy linen | [G] land [Gsus4] | [G]
Chorus
And now I under- | [Am] stand ... | [D7] .. what you tried to | [G] say to [Gmaj7] me |
| [Em] . and how you suffered for your | [Am] sanity | [D7] .. and you tried to set them | [Em!] free
They would not listen, they did | [A] not know how | [Am] ... per- [D7] haps they'll listen | [G] now [Gsus4] | [G]
Starry, starry | [G] night [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... flaming flowers that | [Am] brightly blaze [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Swirling clouds in | [C] violet [Cmaj7] haze, re- | [D7] flecting Vincent's eyes of china | [G] blue
Colors changing | [G] hue [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... Morning fields of | [Am] amber grain [Am9] .... |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Weathered faces | [C] lined in [Cmaj7] pain, are | [D7] soothed beneath the artist's loving | [G] hand
Chorus
Now I under- | [Am] stand ... | [D7] .. what you tried to | [G] say to [Gmaj7] me |
| [Em] . and how you suffered for your | [Am] sanity | [D7] .. and you tried to set them | [Em!] free
They would not listen, they did | [A] not know how | [Am] ... per- [D7] haps they'll listen | [G] now
Bridge
For they could not | [Am] love you .... | [D] . but still your love was | [G] true [Gmaj7] |
| [Em] ... And when no | [Am!] hope was left in sight on that | [Cm!] starry, starry night,
You | [G] took your life as [G7] lovers often | [E7!] do
But I | [Am] could have told you, Vincent, this | [C] world was never meant for one as
| [D] beautiful as... | [G] you [Gsus4] | [G]
Starry, starry | [G] night [Gsus4] .... | [G] .... portraits hung in | [Am] empty halls [Am9] |
| [Am] .... [Am9] Frameless heads on | [C] nameless [Cmaj7] walls, with | [D7] eyes that watch the world and can't for- | [G] get
Like the strangers that you've | [G] met [Gsus4] ... The | [G] ragged men in | [Am] ragged [Am9] clothes |
| [Am] ... The [Am9] silver thorn of | [C] bloody [Cmaj7] rose, lie | [D7!] crushed and broken on the virgin | [G] snow
Chorus
And now I think I | [Am] know [Am9] .... | [D7] . what you tried to | [G] say to [Gmaj7] me |
| [Em] . How you suffered for your | [Am] sanity | [D7] . how you tried to set them | [Em!] free
They would not listen, they're not | [A] listening still | [Am] ... per- [D7] haps they never | [G] will [Gsus4] | [G!]
#Play along with Don Mclean in this key.
#Last Updated 5/30/22 JJ
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