Starry Starry Night Chords & Lyrics - Don Mclean

[G]Starry starry night paint your palette [Am]blue and grey
Look out on a [C]summer’s day with [D7]eyes that know the darkness in my [G]soul
Shadows on the hills sketch the trees and the [Am]daffodils
Catch the breeze and the [C]winter chills
In [D7]colors on the snowy linen [G]land


Now I under[Am]stand [D7] what you tried to [G]say to me [Em]
How you suffered for your [Am]sanity [D7] how you tried to set them [Em]free
They would not listen they did not [A7]know how
[D7]Perhaps they’ll listen [G]now


Starry starry night flaming flowers [Am]that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in [C]violet haze [D7]reflect in Vincent’s eyes of [G]china blue
Colors changing hue morning fields of [Am]amber grain
Weathered faces [C]lined in pain [D7]are soothed beneath the artists lov[G]ing hand


Repeat #2

For they could not [Am]love you [D7]but still your love was [G]true [Em]
And when no [Am]hope was left in sight on that [Cm]starry starry nite
You [G]took you life as [F]lovers often [E7]do but I [Am]could of told you Vincent
This [C]world was never meant for one as [D7]beautiful as [G]you


Starry starry night portraits hung in [Am]empty halls
Frameless heads on [C]nameless walls with [D7]eyes
That watch the [G]world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met the ragged men in [Am]ragged clothes
The silver thorn the [C]bloody rose [D7]lie crushed and broken on the virgin [G]snow

And now I [Am]think I know [D7]what you tried to [G]say to me [Em]
How you suffered[Am] for yo[D7]ur sanity how you tried to[Em] set them free
They would not listen they’re not [A7]listening still
[D7]Perhaps they never [G]will


And now I under[Am]stand [D7] what you tried to [G]say to 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 [A7]listening still[Am] pe[D7]rhaps they never [G]will