title: Vincent (Starry Night)key: Rockharp type: Chromaticgenre: Cskill: Intermediate(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 -8Shadows on the hills-8 -7 7 6 -7 -8 6Sketch the trees and the daffodils-8 -7 7 6 -7 -8 6Catch 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 -8How 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 -4And when no hope was left inside-4 5 -5* -5 -5 5 -5On that starry starry night6 -5 5 5 -4 -4 3 -3 -4 -4__You took your life as lovers often do-4 -4 5 -4 -4 -3 -3 -4But 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 nightFlaming flowers that brightly blazeSwirling clouds in violet hazeReflect in Vincent’s eyes of china blueColors changing hueMorning fields of amber grainWeathered faces lined in painAre soothed beneath the artist’s loving handNow I understandWhat you tried to say to meHow you suffered for your sanityHow you tried to set them freeThey would not listen, they did not know howPerhaps they’ll listen nowStarry starry nightPortraits hung in empty hallsFrameless heads on nameless wallsWith eyes that watch the world and can’t forgetLike the strangers that you’ve metThe ragged men in ragged clothesThe silver thorn of bloody roseLie crushed and broken on the virgin snowNow I think I knowWhat you tried to say to meHow you suffered for your sanityHow you tried to set them freeThey did not listen, they’re not listening stillPerhaps they never willThis plays with karaoke music, same Artist, run time 4:07.