VINCENT (PAGE 264 GREEN BOOK)

VERSE 1

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Starry, starry night, paint your palette blue and grey,

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Look out on a summer’s day with eyes that know the darkness in my soul. Shadows on the

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hills, sketch the trees and the daffodils,

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Catch the breeze and the winter chills, in colors on the snowy linen land.

CHORUS

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Now I under stand what you tried to say to me

Em7 / / / Am / / / D7 / / / Em (cut)
How you suffered for your sanity, How you tried to set them free

Tacit _______________________ A / / / Am / D7 / G / / / G (cut)

They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they’ll listen now 1 2

VERSE 2

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Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze.

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Swirling clouds in violet haze reflecting vincent’s eyes of china blue Colours changing

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hue morning fields of amber grain

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Weathered faces lined in pain are soothed beneath the artists loving hand

CHORUS

G / / / Am / / / D7 / / / G / Gmaj7 /
Now I under stand what you tried to say to me

Em7 / / / Am / / / D7 / / / Em (cut)
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free

Tacit___________________ A / / / Am / D7 / G (cut)
They would not listen, they did not know how perhaps they’ll listen now
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BRIDGE
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For they could not love you but still your love was true

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And when no hope was left in sight, on that starry, starry night, you

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took your life as lovers often do, But I

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could have told you Vincent, this

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world was never meant for one as beautiful as you

VERSE 3

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Starry, starry night, portraits hung in empty halls

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Frameless heads on nameless walls with eyes that watch the world and can’t forget

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Like the strangers that you’ve met, the ragged men in ragged clothes.

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A silver thorn of bloody rose lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

CHORUS

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Now I think I know what you tried to say to me

Em7 / / / Am / / / D7 / / / Em (cut)
How you suffered for your sanity How you tried to set them free

Tacit______________________________________ A / / / Am / D7 / G ///C///G
They would not listen, they’re not listening still perhaps they never will.