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