Starry Starry Night Chords

Lyrics & chords

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

[Chorus 1]
Now I under[Am]stand[D]
What you tried to [G]say to me
[Em]How you suffered for your sani[Am]ty[D]
How you tried to set them [Em]free
They would not listen,
they did [A]not know [D]how
Perhaps they'll listen [G]now

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

[Chorus 2]
Oh, now I under[Am]stand[D]
What you tried to [G]say to me
[Em]How you suffered for your sani[Am]ty[D]
How you tried to set them [Em]free
They would not listen,
they did [A]not know [D]how
Perhaps they'll listen [G]now

[Bridge 1]
For they could [Am]not love you, love [D]you
But still your [G]love was true
[Em]And when no hope[Am] was left in sight
On that [Cm]starry, starry night
You [G]took your life as lovers often [E]do
But I [Am]could have told you, Vincent
This [C]world was never meant
For one as [D]beautiful as [G]you, ohh

[Verse 3]
Starry, starry [G]night
Portraits [Am]hung in empty halls
Frameless [C]heads on nameless walls
With [D]eyes that watch the world
and can't for[G]get
Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged [Am]men in ragged clothes
A silver [C]thorn of a bloody rose
Lie [D]crushed and broken on the virgin [G]snow

[Chorus 3]
Now I think I [Am]know
[D]Oh, what you [G]tried to say to me
[Em]How you suffered for your sani[Am]ty[D]
How you tried to set them [Em]free
They would not listen,
[A]they're not listening sti[D]ll
Perhaps they [G]never will