Orpheus Gang

DON MCLEAN

VINCENT (STARRY NIGHT)

VERSE

Lick #1 G Am

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CHORUS

G Am D7 G

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Am D7 G

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BRIDGE

G Am D7 G

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Orpheus Gang

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VERSE

G G G

Starry, starry night, paint your palette

Am Am C

Blue and grey, Look out on a summer's day,

D7 G (Lick #1)

with eyes that know the darkness in my soul

G G

Shadows on the hills,

C Am

Sketch the trees and daffodills

C Am

Catch the breeze and winter chills, in

D7 G (Lick #2)

CHORUS

colors on the snowy linen land

G Am Am

And now I under stand what you tried to

G Am Am

Say to me, how you suffered for your sanity

C G

How you tried to set them free,

C C Am

they would not listen, they did not know how,

D7 G (Lick #1)

Perhaps they'll listen now

G G G

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that

Am Am C

Brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze

D7 G (Lick #1)

Reflecting Vincents eyes of China Blue

G G

Colors changing hue,

C Am

Morning fields of amber grain

C Am

Weathered faces lined with pain

D7 G (Lick #2)

Are soothed beneath the artists loving hand

G Am Am

And now I under stand what you tried to

G Am Am

say to me, how you suffered for your sanity

C G

How you tried to set them free,

C C Am

they would not listen, they did not know how,

D7 G

Perhaps they'll listen now

Orpheus Gang

C

For they could not love you,

C G

but still your love was true

C C

And when no hope was left in sight

C C

On that starry, starry night,

G G G

you took your life as lovers sometimes do

Am C

But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was

D7 G (Lick #1)

Never meant for one as beautiful as you

G G G

Starry, starry night, portraits hung in

Am Am C

Empty halls, fearless heads on nameless walls

D7 G

with eyes that watch the world and cant forget

G G

Like the strangers that youve met

C Am

The ragged men in ragged clothes

C Am

The silver thorn of bloody rose, lie

D7 G (Lick #2)

Crushed and broken on the virgin snow

G Am Am

And now I think I know, what you tried to

G Am Am

say to me, how you suffered for your sanity

C G

How you tried to set them free,

C Am

They would not listen, theyre not listening still,

D7 G

Perhaps the never will