Artist: | Don Mclean (English) |
User: | ronlindeman |
Duration: | 130 seconds |
Delay: | 12 seconds |
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Written by Don McLean From the album: Don McLean "American Pie" (1971) |
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Paint your palette blue and gray
C
Look out on a summer's day
D7 G
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Am
Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and the daffodils
C
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
D7 G C G
In colors on the snowy linen land
G Am
Now I understand
G Em
What you tried to say to me
Am7
And how you suffered for your sanity
D7 Em
And how you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they did not know how
D7 G
Perhaps they'll listen now
G
Starry, starry night
Am
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
C
Swirling clouds in violet haze
D7 G
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Am
Colors changing hue, Morning fields of amber grain
C
Weathered faces lined in pain
D7 G C G
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
G Am
Now I understand
G Em
What you tried to say to me
Am7
And how you suffered for your sanity
D7 Em
And how you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they did not know how
D7 G
Perhaps they'll listen now
G Am7
For they could not love you
D7 G Em
But still your love was true
Am7 Cm)
And when no hope was left in sight, On that starry, starry night
G F7 E7
You took your life, as lovers often do
Am7
But I could've told you Vincent
C D7
This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you
G Am
Starry, starry night, Portraits hung in empty halls
C
Frame-less heads on nameless walls
D7 G
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Am
Like the strangers that you've met, The ragged men in ragged clothes
C D7 G C G
The silver thorn of bloody rose, Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
G Am
Now I think I know
G Em
What you tried to say to me
Am7
And how you suffered for your sanity
D7 Em
And how you tried to set them free
A7 Am7
They would not listen, they're not listening still
D7 G
Perhaps they never will
Written by Don McLean
From the album:
Don McLean "American Pie" (1971)