Vincent (starry, Starry Night) Uke tab by Don Mclean

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

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Now I understand
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What you tried to say to me
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And how you suffered for your sanity
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And how you tried to set them free
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They would not listen, they did not know how
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Perhaps they'll listen now

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Starry, starry night
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Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
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Swirling clouds in violet haze
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Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue


Colors changing hue
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Morning fields of amber grain
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Weathered faces lined in pain
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Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

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Now I understand
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What you tried to say to me
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And how you suffered for your sanity
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And how you tried to set them free   

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They would not listen, they did not know how
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Perhaps they'll listen now

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For they could not love you
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But still your love was true
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And when no hope was left in sight
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On that starry, starry night

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You took your life, as lovers often do
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But I could've told you Vincent
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This world was never meant for
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One as beautiful as you

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Starry, starry night
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Portraits hung in empty halls
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Frame-less heads on nameless walls
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With eyes that watch the world and can't forget


Like the strangers that you've met
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The ragged men in ragged clothes
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The silver thorn of bloody rose
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Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

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Now I think  I know
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What you tried to say to me
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And how you suffered for your sanity
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And how you tried to set them free

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They would not listen, they're not listening still
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Perhaps they never will