Vincent Ukulele chords by Don Mclean

Tuning: G C E A (G C E A)

Verse 1:
      F    Fsus F
Starry, starry night
        Gm
Paint your palette blue and grey
       Bb
Look out on a summer's day
   C7               F
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
        Fsus F
Shadows on the hills
           Gm
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
            Bb
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
    C7        F   Bb F
In colors on the snowy linen land

Chorus:
    Gm   C7
Now I understand
         F
What you tried to say to me
  Dm           Gm7
And how you suffered for your sanity
   C7           Dm
And how you tried to set them free
                G7      Gm7
They would not listen, they did not know how
  C7       F
Perhaps they'll listen now


Verse 2:
      F    Fsus F
Starry, starry night
         Gm
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
          Bb
Swirling clouds in violet haze
  C7              F
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
      F    Fsus F
Colors changing hue
         Gm
Morning fields of amber grain
        Bb
Weathered faces lined in pain
   C7              F
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand


Chorus:
    Gm  C7
Now I understand
         F
What you tried to say to me
  Fm
And how you suffered for your sanity
  C7           Dm
And how you tried to set them free
                G7      Gm7
They would not listen, they did not know how
  C7        F
Perhaps they'll listen now


Bridge:
         Gm7
For they could not love you
 C7         F   Eb D
But still your love was true
      Gm7
And when no hope was left in sight
   Bbm
On that starry, starry night
    F       Eb7      D7
You took your life, as lovers often do
  Gm7
But I could have told you, Vincent
Bb
This world was never meant for one
 C7    F    Fsus F
As beautiful as you


Verse 3:
       F   Fsus F
Starry, starry night
         Gm
Portraits hung in empty halls
        Bb
Frameless heads on nameless walls
   C7                  F
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
               F  Fsus F
Like the strangers that you've met
         Gm
The ragged men in the ragged clothes
         Bb
The silver thorn; a bloody rose
  C7               F
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow


Outro:
       Gm
Now I think I know
 C7        F
What you tried to say to me
 Fm           Gm7
And how you suffered for your sanity
 C7             Dm
And how you tried to set them free
                 G7      Gm7
They would not listen, they're not listening still
  C7      F
Perhaps they never will