Vincent (starry Starry Night) Uke tab by Don Mclean

Verse 1:
               G
Starry, starry night
                   Am     
Paint your palette blue and gray
               C
Look out on a summer's day
      D                                G 
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
G
Shadows on the hills
G                              Am
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
                         C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
    D                        G  
In colors on the snowy linen land


Chorus:
G           Am
Now I understand
D                 G      D                
What you tried to say to me
Em                            Am
And how you suffered for your sanity
D                             Em 
And how you tried to set them free
                C                         A 
They would not listen, they did not know how
D                      G
Perhaps they'll listen now


Verse 2:
G
Starry, starry night
                      Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Am                 C   
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D                                  G
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
G 
Colors changing hue
G                 Am
Morning fields of amber grain
                C 
Weathered faces lined in pain
    D                                   G
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand


Chorus:
G          Am
Now I understand
D                 G      D
What you tried to say to me
Em                            Am
And how you suffered for your sanity
D                             Em 
And how you tried to set them free
                C                         A 
They would not listen, they did not know how
D                      G
Perhaps they'll listen now


Bridge:
G                       Am
For they could not love you
D                       G
But still your love was true
G           Am
And when no hope was left in sight
         Cm
On that starry, starry night
    G                               Em
You took your life, as lovers often do
       Am     
But I could've told you, Vincent,
      C                               D            G
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
 

Verse 3:
G
Starry, starry night
G                 Am
Portraits hung in empty halls.
Am                  C
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
     D                                   G
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
G
Like the strangers that you've met
G                 Am
The ragged men in ragged clothes
Am                  C
The silver thorn of bloody rose
    D                                G
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow


Final Chorus:
G             Am
Now I think I know
D                 G      D
What you tried to say to me
Em                            Am
And how you suffered for your sanity
D                             Em
And how you tried to set them free
                                   A
They would not listen, they're not listening still
C                  G
Perhaps they never will